Every year more than 300,000 people in the U.S. die from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, making it a leading cause of death. Improved access to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and ...

KERA's Sam Baker talks with Dr. Tyler Bloomer, a cardiologist with Texas Health Harris Fort Worth Hospital. He explains the program and how extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation helped save a ...

Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) can be used as an option to manage in-hospital and out-of-hospital refractory cardiac ...

After suffering cardiac arrest in March, Ken Platt’s heart stopped for 45 minutes — a span that typically marks the end of life. But thanks to a groundbreaking eCPR program, the 65-year-old got a ...

Rhaman Johnson collapsed at work in December. What happened next tested a lifesaving technology rarely available outside ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Editor's Note: The attached video originally aired on Oct. 18, 2023 and is about the new midwife program at the University of Iowa. According to the University of Iowa's "Project ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — For the last year, Ken Platt has taken many walks. But the road to recovery was a walk that started back in March. "I woke up in the middle of the night and I had this feeling of, ...

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