Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and ...

Tony-award winning star Billy Porter recently opened up about a health scare that nearly cost him his life. He spoke on Outlaws with TS Madison regarding the incident that forced him to step away from ...

In a perfect world, a patient suffering from cardiac arrest could get help for their heart without rushing into emergency surgery during an attack. Or someone in critical need of a life-saving lung or ...

Kelli Gehrke, 36, had been in cardiac arrest for seven minutes when a mobile team of doctors and specialists flown in from Harborview Medical Center connected her to a life-saving machine that ...

WellSpan York Hospital has 10 ECMO machines that officials say have saved nearly 400 lives. "ECMO is the highest form of life support that is currently offered in the world. It can either support the ...

She survived, but she lost both arms and both legs. A sore throat turned into a rare infection. The infection turned into sepsis. Her organs failed. Her heart stopped. “I should have been dead. I didn ...

He developed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a treatment that can sustain patients whose hearts and lungs are failing — for days or weeks or longer. By Jeré Longman Robert H. Bartlett, a ...