When TriHealth patient Chelsey Robinson was getting an epidural in preparation for birth, she lost consciousness, her blood ...

A multidisciplinary clinical team led by Professor Bernat Soria from the Institute of Bioengineering at the Miguel Hernández ...

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 ...

A clinical trial by NSW Ambulance has saved lives by bringing a machine that's usually only available in hospital to the ...

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 ...

“The only options for treating not only the novel coronavirus but various lung illnesses was to use ventilators or ECMO devices, but this could lead to an increase in alternatives,” said ...

The following is a summary of “Does Levosimendan hasten veno-arterial ECMO weaning? A propensity score matching analysis,” published in the April 2025 issue of Annals of Intensive Care by Paulo et al.