Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.

Advanced life support like extracorporeal membrane oxygenation takes over the functions of the heart and lungs for critically ...