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What is ECMO? Doctors are shocked so many ICU patients are on this advanced life support right now

  • Written by: Greg Kelly, Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Doctors and health experts have expressed shock on social media recently about the number of ICU patients on ECMO treatment, especially in Victoria.

ECMO, which stands for extra corporeal membrane oxygenation, is the life support of last resort for patients with severe heart and lung failure.

At any one time, a busy ECMO hospital would...

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