A Tennessee man nearly died from sepsis after initially dismissing a fall as a minor injury. The man was the first patient saved through a new partnership between Ascension Saint Thomas and Williamson ...

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 ...

TriHealth’s program is "one of a handful in the region" now using ECMO, and getting a patient onto the machine fast can mean the difference between life and death, TriHealth cardiothoracic surgeon Dr.

ORLANDO, Fla. – You wouldn’t think you could live when both your heart and lungs are failing, but there is technology that makes it possible, and the first and only program of its kind in Central ...

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 ...

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) can be defined as the emergent use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on patients in cardiac arrest for whom conventional CPR has failed.

I’M CAROL CLARKE A GREENVILLE MAN SAYS EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AFTER JUNE OF LAST YEAR IS BONUS TIME. A SPECIAL GIFT. ALL BECAUSE HE SURVIVED A DISSECTED AORTA. GIFTED DOCTORS AT PRISMA HEALTH AND A ...