Search Tag: Euro-Elso 2014

ICU Management

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