ECMO: Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Let's start off with the basics. ECMO is the medical abbreviation for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation. This means that the system takes blood out of your body run its through a circuit, and puts oxygen into it. It can obviously do other things which I will cover below. There are two types of ECMO, VA …

Continue reading ECMO: Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation