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13th September 2021   ·   0 Comments

ECMO is the highest level of life support – beyond a ventilator, which pumps oxygen via a tube through the windpipe into the lungs. Instead, the ECMO process basically functions as a heart and lungs outside of the body – routing the blood via tubing to a machine that oxygenates it, then pumps it back into the patient. Photo by Blake Farmer/Nashville Public Radio via khn.org

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