A shortfall of ECMO treatment cost lives during the delta surge - News-Medical.Net

4/7/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 10 months ago

Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life support treatment in which a machine outside the body does the w…

Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life supp… [+5947 chars]

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