Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, James Perkinson's voice is raspy. In late February, he'd just been taken off ECMO, where the blood is piped outside ...

Doctors in Arizona doubted that Dr. Karl Viddal was going to make it. The ventilator was running at its highest setting and still wasn't enough for his lungs. Doctors in Arizona doubted that Dr. Karl ...

Hadassah and Rambam medical centers report an unusual overload in pediatric ICUs as influenza and measles surge, with several ...

BAILEY, Colo. — When COVID-19 was continuing its deadly spread through Colorado, ICUs filled up. Lifesaving ventilators and ECMO machines were in short supply. For Jim Wilson, ECMO (extracorporeal ...

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As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reconfigures its masking guidelines to consider health systems, a recent study highlights the importance of keeping hospital capacity and resources at ...

Eastpointe — Destinee Hayes is alive and home. Neither was a given as the 14-year-old survived an illness so severe that she remained on a ventilator in a coma for two-and-a-half months and required ...

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Patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — a type of heart-lung bypass therapy — typically need extended bed rest, due to the severity of their illness and the invasive nature of the ...