MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Victor and Melissa Echeverria never expected to be at Valley Children's Hospital worried about losing their daughter, especially less than a day after she was born. The new ...

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, 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 ...

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

During surgery, his heart stopped and he quit breathing. Jones went into cardiac arrest, leading to severe respiratory failure. The surgical team gave 10 chest compressions to restart his heart and ...

The ECMO machines are being installed at the cardiac ICU at Renown Regional Medical Center. These machines take over heart and lung function when a patient’s organs do not work on their own. “We are ...

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 membrane ...