JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Aug. 7, 2020) -- Brooke Army Medical Center is expanding its use of a highly specialized treatment many consider the “last line of defense” for ...

PHOENIX - On Dec. 23, we reported on a 35-year-old Army veteran in Arizona who is in need of a life-saving treatment, as he battles COVID-19. On Christmas Eve, a sad update for Brian Yazzie, as we ...

ECMO is a life support system that can temporarily take over the work of the heart and lungs, providing the body with oxygen. It can allow the heart and lungs time to rest and heal. A person may ...

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Have we ever been more aware of what it means to breathe? To fill our lungs with air, feel our chests expand and know that something so ordinary and commonplace is now — especially now — nothing to ...

ECMO is a type of life support for people with severe heart and lung conditions. ECMO involves a machine that pumps your blood (when your heart can’t) and adds oxygen to it (when your lungs can’t). An ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Jan. 7, 2022) -- A Marine Corps spouse and mother of five was 28 weeks pregnant when she caught a “mild case” of COVID-19 in June 2021. Ashley Savidge ...

One of the most complex and high-risk interventions used by IJN in such situations was Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who underwent ECMO for COVID-19 pneumonia or non-COVID-19 pneumonia were balanced based on ...

Hospital discharge day for Phoua Yang was more like a pep rally. On her way rolling out of Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, she teared up as streamers and confetti rained down on her. Nurses ...