For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...
Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...
The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.
Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...
When a San Diego physician asked a technician at General Dynamics’ Convair Division to sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart ...