Crain's Chicago Business

Northwestern unveils artificial lung training • Outcome Health whistleblower testifies • FTC eyes big tech-health care deal

NORTHWESTERN TRAINING SMALLER HOSPITALS ON ECMO: The pandemic shed light on the usefulness of, and lack of access to, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), or extracorporeal life support. It's ...
Medscape

Survival of Newborn Infants With Severe Respiratory Failure Before and After Establishing an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program

We collected retrospective data from all newborns with severe HRF with an oxygenation index (OI) greater than 25 admitted to our NICU between 1996 and 2009 comparing the period before (January 1996 to ...
The Michigan Daily

UMHS treats more than 2,000 patients with ECMO machine

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Before her son was even born, Rosemary Ellinger was told her baby wouldn’t survive without the ...
News Medical

Early mobility contributes to higher survival rates for COVID-19 patients receiving ECMO

A Texas cardiac subspecialty hospital with seven years of experience with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) changed its treatment paradigm during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that ...
Medscape

'Father of ECMO': When a Ventilator Isn't Enough

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. An early hallmark of pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 is severe refractory respiratory failure. Many ...