Search Tag: Euro-Elso
2017 04 May
EuroELSO is the European branch of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) established in Ann Arbor, MI, USA in 1989. This website has the objective to join all the European health care professionals and scientists who are dedicated to the development and evaluation of novel therapies for support of failing organ systems with extracorporeal...Read more
2014 22 May
In intensive care medicine, ECMO (Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) refers to a technique to provide cardiac and respiratory oxygen assistance outside the body to patients who are so seriously ill that their lungs or heart can no longer function correctly. ECMO is most commonly used in neonatal intensive care for newborns with pulmonary distress,...Read more