ECMO, especially, is expensive, requires specialized personnel to operate and requires patients to go on blood thinners. VQ's device — using technology from Duke's medical and engineering ...

However, ECMO is unable to save covid-19 patients with multiple organs that have already started to shut down, because it only replaces the job of the lungs and sometimes the heart, not other organs.

VQ Biomedical, spun out of Duke University, has developed a novel, minimally invasive catheter designed to deliver oxygen directly to the bloodstream. The catheter bypasses the lungs, giving ARDS ...

The outlet says that Ross had been placed in an intensive care unit on Thursday and hooked up to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine (ECMO) — device which aids heart and lung functions.

ECMO uses a pump that attaches with tubes to large blood vessels in the neck or groin. It is most commonly used for patients recovering from heart surgery or suffering from cardiac shock, awaiting a ...

Baebies receives US FDA breakthrough device designation for first point-of-care heparin monitoring test: Durham, North Carolina Friday, April 25, 2025, 14:00 Hrs [IST] Baebies, a ...

A multidisciplinary clinical team led by Professor Bernat Soria from the Institute of Bioengineering at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH, Spain) has developed a new method to deliver cell ...