ECMO is a type of life support for people with severe heart and lung conditions. ECMO involves a machine that pumps your blood (when your heart can’t) and adds oxygen to it (when your lungs can’t). An ...

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BEAUMONT, Texas — Southeast Texas now has two state of the art life-saving machines. Baptist Hospital has two extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines. ECMO is a life support system used ...

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 ...

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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 ...

What started as a case of the flu ended with a mom in a coma for months. "Oh my goodness. It's been a long year. It really has," Crystal Delong said. "My boyfriend told me that I was unresponsive in ...