A 33-year-old patient at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital was kept alive for 48 hours using artificial lungs after ...
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The 33-year-old patient arrived in dire straits, struck by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) triggered by the flu and worsened by bacterial pneumonia.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) systems have achieved a breakthrough in sustaining the life of a critically ill ...
One of two nurses infected with the Nipah virus has been discharged from a Barasat hospital after responding well to ...
In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach ...
The doctors faced a dilemma: The patient’s lungs were fueling the infection, but he was too sick to undergo a transplant ...
LONDON, Feb 2 (Xinhua/APP): A groundbreaking case published this week in the journal Med reported the successful use of an external, artificial lung system to sustain a critically ill patient for 48 ...
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Michael N. Hayes, 8, died of an acute form of pneumonia at Erie apartment in Jan. 2024. His mom, dad and mom's boyfriend are ...
One fine morning, Avdesh, a migrant labourer living in Mumbai, woke up to a terrifying reality as his body, from the neck down, did not respond. His roommates r ...
Although human-to-human transmission is relatively limited, Nipah outbreaks are known to be extremely dangerous because they ...