How ECMO Could Help COVID-19 Patients | Michigan Medicine
When Ventilators Don’t Help COVID-19 Patients, This Might
Health Lab · Michigan Medicine Department of Communication
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Show Notes
Ventilators have gotten a lot of attention in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. But hundreds of hospitals around the world have another, less publicized weapon that might help some of the most desperately ill patients survive when ventilators aren’t enough.
Right now, hundreds of COVID-19 patients in intensive care worldwide are being kept alive using a life support technology called ECMO and the skills of specially trained teams of nurses, respiratory therapists, technicians and doctors.
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