ECMO life support can be used when coronavirus patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome respond poorly to mechanical ventilation. Seriously ill coronavirus patients placed on extracorporeal ...

Early application of prone positioning did not help patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) -- mostly from COVID -- get off venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...

(CNN) — For extremely sick patients, an advanced form of life support called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, cuts the risk of dying from Covid-19 by half, according to a new study by ...

A notable proportion of patients receiving veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for acute respiratory failure developed acute kidney injury (AKI), likely due to the greater severity ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. For patients with refractory acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19 infections, ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Providence Swedish is one of a few hospitals with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program in the state of Washington. “We are able to essentially shuttle the patient’s blood ...

The life-support system called ECMO can rescue COVID-19 patients from the brink of death, but not at the rates seen early in the pandemic, a new study finds. Where once about 60 percent of such ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with asthma exacerbations with respiratory failure receiving ECMO vs. usual care had reduced mortality.

As the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic arrives, the understanding of what’s possible when caring for patients with severe respiratory illness has been reset. When San Diego County’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was higher in the second wave of patients with COVID-19, ...