A Landmark Case in ECMO-Supported Bridge-to-Transplant Care 

Surgical team in a hospital operating room performing an open chest procedure with multiple tubes and lines connected to the patient, including extracorporeal circulation equipment, while monitors and instruments surround the sterile field.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has always been a therapy defined by its ability to buy time; time for a heart to recover, for lungs to heal, or for a transplant to become possible. But a recently published case report from Northwestern Medicine introduces a new way of buying time — one that has only been attempted a handful of times […]