MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Victor and Melissa Echeverria never expected to be at Valley Children's Hospital worried about losing their daughter, especially less than a day after she was born. The new ...

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 ...

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 ...

During surgery, his heart stopped and he quit breathing. Jones went into cardiac arrest, leading to severe respiratory failure. The surgical team gave 10 chest compressions to restart his heart and ...

When COVID-19 was continuing its deadly spread through Colorado, ICUs filled up. Lifesaving ventilators and ECMO machines were in short supply. For Jim Wilson, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane ...

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation is one of the most advanced life supports available, taking over for the heart and lungs in patients with severe failure of those organs.