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 ...

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 ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. The global extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine market is experiencing growth due to the rise in 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 ...