LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, today announced it received 510(k) clearance for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-support technique used for patients with severe respiratory or cardiac failure. It temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs, ...
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 ...
A 24-year-old contracted COVID-19 in Florida He was airlifted to Georgia to be put on ECMO circuit He underwent a double lung transplant at the University of Maryland A 24-year-old man with COVID-19 ...
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can play an essential role in the management of the ...
Packed red blood cell transfusion improved survival among adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome on venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation when using a hemoglobin threshold of less ...
You may think of ventilators as the last line of defense for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. But that’s not always the case. Next-level life support exists for some of the sickest ...