ECU Health Medical Center is proud to announce its designation as a Gold Level Center of Excellence in Life Support by the ...

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center (EMRMC) has been designated a Silver Level Center on the Pathway to Excellence in ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is usually a last resort strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but for cases from COVID-19 should it come sooner? Starting awake ECMO ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. No, it’s not the new antiviral therapy for Covid-19. It’s not a ...

Every day we're hearing about the number of coronavirus cases in Australia, how many people are in hospital, in intensive care units and on ventilators. But there is another technique you may not have ...

Hospital’s multidisciplinary team works together to initiate ECMO, a temporary form of life support, to stabilise Nur Ameera ...

ECMO is a life support system that can temporarily take over the work of the heart and lungs, providing the body with oxygen. It can allow the heart and lungs time to rest and heal. A person may ...

Greg Kelly is a Staff Specialist, Paediatric Intensive Care, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network and affiliated with OzSAGE. Josh Ihle is Senior Intensive Care Physician and Deputy Head of ...

Have we ever been more aware of what it means to breathe? To fill our lungs with air, feel our chests expand and know that something so ordinary and commonplace is now — especially now — nothing to ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a method of providing heart and lung support to patients, usually following a heart attack, when the heart is no longer capable of pumping blood around ...

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 ...

The parents of a baby who was placed on life support the moment she was born are preparing for the Christmas they feared she would never see. Emma and Mike only saw a quick glimpse of their daughter, ...