Doctors in Arizona doubted that Dr. Karl Viddal was going to make it. The ventilator was running at its highest setting and still wasn't enough for his lungs. Doctors in Arizona doubted that Dr. Karl ...

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 ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation provides life support for coronavirus patients suffering respiratory failure. After all other conventional treatments have failed, extracorporeal membrane ...

BAILEY, Colo. — When COVID-19 was continuing its deadly spread through Colorado, ICUs filled up. Lifesaving ventilators and ECMO machines were in short supply. For Jim Wilson, ECMO (extracorporeal ...

An ECMO machine, which stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, sits in the hallway of a medical ICU unit at St. Mary's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Patients severely ill with ...

Fernando Nino is fighting for his life as his family desperately searches for a lifesaving machine that’s increasingly rare as the pandemic drags on. The police officer from Palestine, Texas, tested ...

Chinabridge (Shenzhen) Medical Technology Co. Ltd.’s extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine Lifemotion gained NMPA approval, making it the first domestically developed ECMO unit given a ...

Rowena Salas underwent a C-section after testing positive for COVID-19. A Nevada woman who gave birth to two children and suffered the loss of her husband during the coronavirus pandemic is recovering ...

St. Louis police Officer Dave Tenorio returned in January to the COVID floor at St. Luke’s Hospital for the first time. Tenorio, 55, a motorcycle officer known for his friendly presence outside St.