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ECMO

British  

abbreviation

  1. 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

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

Other pigs, dead for an hour, were treated with ECMO, a machine that pumped blood through their bodies.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 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

"So it's just a huge lift in all different aspects of the hospital, and frankly, that's why a lot of hospitals don't have ECMO."

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2022