SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – With February being heart month, Baystate Health is highlighting a treatment that’s been used for decades for heart related conditions but is now saving the lives of some ...
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 ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic ventilators were in short supply. Now a different treatment is in demand for the sickest of Covid patients. ECMO therapy is a last-resort ...
MADISON, Wis. — UW Health says ECMO technology to treat cardiac arrest will now be available for children as young as 13. The health care provider is partnering with first responder agencies in the ...
For those hospitalized with severe COVID-19, there is a last-resort treatment available that has been shown to save their lives. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, often referred to as ECMO ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — ECMO machines are one of the many tools being used to fight against COVID in mid-state hospitals, and they're being used more than ever right now as the delta variant surges.
While ventilator shortages have been largely averted in the U.S., this lifesaving therapy is scarce. How to choose which critically ill patients get it? By Sheri Fink During a surge of coronavirus ...
WALLINGFORD — Robby Walker, a Florida COVID-19 patient who was airlifted to St. Francis Hospital in Hartford for a life-saving treatment after a doctor saw his wife’s plea for help on CNN, was ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Early on in the ...