Traditional ECMO machines are typically housed within larger hospitals and require significant resources, making them difficult to deploy in emergency settings. Researchers also aim to develop new ...
Today, Nico is at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, a life-support system used for patients with life-threatening heart or lung complications.
The SUVs and new larger vehicles both have extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines, which ambulances don’t typically have. An ECMO machine takes the blood out of the heart and oxygenates it, ...