ECMO
Britishabbreviation
Example Sentences
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He remembers saying good night to them in a call from the hospital just before being connected to 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
For all the talk of ventilator capacity, what was in shortest supply during the delta surge was something called ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2022
Gannon said she hopes that their study will encourage government agencies and more medical centers to "invest in infrastructure for ECMO."
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2022
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