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Survivors of ECMO life support had a 24 percent higher rate of new mental health diagnoses after discharge compared to other ICU survivors, according to a new study. Survivors of ECMO life support had ...
It was late April, near the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in the big cities in the northeastern U.S., and anesthesiologist Joseph Savino was puzzled. In two months, an unexpectedly high number of ...
Among adult survivors who received ECMO, incidence of a new mental health diagnosis was 22.1 per 100 person-years compared with 14.5 per 100 person-years in ICU survivors who did not receive ECMO, ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We are taking a closer look at ECMO, a machine that has saved thousands of lives over the past 50 years and has now been an essential tool in the fight against COVID. Chantel ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Dr. John David Hinze at Ascension Seton Medical Center said using ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, to treat COVID-19 can save lives, but the machine has "very limited ...
Marshfield, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield is one of three Wisconsin hospitals to offer ECMO treatment. ECMO is the highest form of life support that is offered at the hospital.
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A lower rate of death was observed among ICU patients with vs. without obesity on extracorporeal membrane ...
Nearly two months after Jim Kolovos was put on a ventilator, his wife and doctors tried to help him regain consciousness so they could ask him a question: Was he ready to give up, or did he want to ...
There are encouraging signs about the latest wave of COVID-19. New cases in South Africa, where the omicron variant of the coronavirus was first identified, have fallen steeply since late December, ...
Survivors of ECMO life support had a 24% higher rate of new mental health diagnoses after discharge compared to other ICU survivors, according to the first study of its kind, published in JAMA. ECMO, ...