You may think of ventilators as the last line of defense for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. But that’s not always the case. Next-level life support exists for some of the sickest ...

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 ...

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic ventilators were in short supply. Now a different treatment is in demand for the sickest of Covid patients. ECMO therapy is a last-resort ...

For critical COVID patients, ECMO is a risky last-ditch treatment where a machine does the work of the heart and the lungs. But only half of COVID patients who are put on ECMO survive, a statistic ...

ATLANTA — A few Georgia families are in a state of desperation as they continue to hit dead ends while trying to find hospitals offering a potentially life-saving treatment for COVID-19 patients.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- COVID knocked Mustafa Mitchell out, but the 32-year-old had a lot of help in his corner. Mitchell's wife kept vigil over him every day, even when she could only get there via ...

He developed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a treatment that can sustain patients whose hearts and lungs are ...

Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson's voice was raspy. In February, he'd just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life ...

ECMO machines became a last-ditch treatment for COVID. But only half of the patients who got ECMO survived, raising questions about whether this expensive and hard to access treatment is worth it. For ...