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ECMO

British

abbreviation

extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a method of life support used to oxygenate the blood in newborn babies with lung failure, using a machine incorporating membranes that are impermeable to blood but permeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide

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Unable to breathe, Rodríguez required two months on ECMO.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023

She explained various medical procedures and the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, or ECMO, that was keeping her alive.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2022

One of our control groups was just the clinical standard, ECMO, in which we just tried to restore the circulation using the animal’s own blood.

From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2022

Doctors put Ginger on ECMO, a form of life support reserved for the sickest patients.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2022

“When he first came out of surgery with ECMO, it was like a Christmas tree of medications because there were so many,” his wife said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2022

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