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In March 2021, UAMS began using a tool that doctors said is saving some of the most critical COVID-19 patients in Arkansas.

Life support keeps the body alive by doing the work of bodily functions that are failing. WebMD explains what life support includes, when it's needed, and when it might be stopped.

Ventilators may be among the best-known types of lifesaving medical equipment that the sickest COVID-19 patients need. But for a small number within that critically ill population, even ventilators ...

Pikeville Medical Center unveils an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), or type of life support machine in its ICU, to serve as a patient's heart and lungs.

An ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine is a life support machine that takes over the function of the heart and lungs. When patients are connected to an ECMO machine, their blood is ...

Shortly after giving birth, a Central Indiana mother’s heart stopped and her vital organs began to shut down. However, she survived, thanks to a team of quick thinking doctors and something c… ...

A menagerie of medical machines join forces in The Immortal, a new project by artist Revital Cohen. The tangled mass of life-support devices are hacked to support each other, detached from their ...

The life support machine she spent 40 days on is called ECMO and it's being used on some of the most critical coronavirus cases in the country.