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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.

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

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.

ECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it.

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… ...