What’s ECMO? In an interview with the Straights Times Dr Peng Zhiyong mentions that the most critically ill Wuhan coronavirus patients are treated by ECMO.
That’s drastic – very drastic, last dich medicine. What ECMO is is outting the patient on a direct oxygen into the bloodstream intervention.
“Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a treatment that uses a pump to circulate blood through an artificial lung back into the bloodstream…”
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Hans Howe 