Gegen, 35, had been the picture of health. He has no memory of the next 10 days, but he benefited from a new approach to how ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — More life saving technology is coming to local hospitals thanks to a special grant. We sat down with one patient who told us if it wasn't for this special technology, he doesn't ...

Natalya Manhertz, once a thriving teen athlete, defied death through ECMO support after a rare infection led to sepsis, ...

For COVID patients, ECMO is a last-ditch respiratory treatment in which only about half survive. Yet a new small study suggests many lives would... Even with risky survival rate, shortages of ECMO ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We are taking a closer look at ECMO, a machine that has saved thousands of lives over the past 50 years and has now been an essential tool in the fight against COVID. Chantel ...

Since the start of the pandemic, the state has reported daily on how many ventilators are available for use in a nod to the role these machines can play in treating the sickest COVID-19 patients. Over ...

The parents of a baby who was placed on life support the moment she was born are preparing for the Christmas they feared she ...

PHOENIX — Several large hospital networks in Arizona are reporting that they are at capacity for ECMO machines that are used for advanced life support for the heart or lungs. Banner Health and Honor ...

"Please keep my sweet girl in your prayers. This next week is a scary time as we see what her next option will be." ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Hospitals are leveraging every resource available to help save lives during the pandemic. One of those tools is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO machines are ...

The machine that saved Ryan Robbins’s life is raising tough ethical questions about how drastically to intervene on behalf of the critically ill. After Covid-19 ravaged the 51-year-old’s lungs in July ...