University of Tennessee Medical Center staffers are saving the lives of East Tennesseans fighting COVID-19 through a new treatment that's in very high demand. Nearly a year after the pandemic made its ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Ballad Health has teamed up with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to train and expand their ECMO team. ECMO is a medical treatment that oxygenates a patient’s blood ...

COVID-19 has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide since the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March 2020. Patients with severe COVID-19 frequently experience respiratory ...

The latest miracle machine in modern medicine – whose use has skyrocketed in recent years – is saving people from the brink of death: adults whose lungs have been ravaged by the flu; a trucker who was ...

Nearly 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who qualified for, but did not receive, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) due to a shortage of resources during the height of the pandemic died in the ...

Mobile County and surrounding area patients now have access to advanced life-support technology closer to home ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It saved countless lives during the darkest hours of the pandemic. ECMO, which stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, is a medical device that treats severe heart and ...

Marshfield, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield is one of three Wisconsin hospitals to offer ECMO treatment. ECMO is the highest form of life support that is offered at the hospital.

ECMO machines became a last-ditch treatment for COVID. But only half of the patients who got ECMO survived, raising questions about whether this expensive and hard to access treatment is worth it. For ...