"The nurses who take care of this machine are the most experienced nurses in the hospital, and a good, experienced nurse is hard to find," Emling said. But ECMO isn't an option for everyone.

Each ECMO patient needs their own dedicated nurse, as well as a team of respiratory therapists and doctors to monitor the therapy. Gannon said that often, staffing as much as equipment was the ...

The shortage of ECMO nurses has prevented the hospital from admitting additional covid patients who need their blood oxygenated outside their body, he said. No more staff nurses have enough ...

They are ECMO nurses, which means they manage a pump that functions as the patient’s heart and lungs. The machine, roughly the size of a milk crate, adds oxygen to the patient’s blood.

Jenna Gresko, a local nurse, learned what it's like to be a patient when a rare condition nearly claimed her life after giving birth to her first child. 24/7 Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania New ...

A specialist doctor and NRI Dr Sunil Pooboni attended an awareness programme conducted at the NTR University of Health ...

Why it's useful in the setting of ECMO is many of our ECMO patients have severe lung disease, pneumonia, and ultimately, that's a source of death for most patients," Dr. Steven Keller explained.

Training nurses in critical-care skills has become a fraught gamble, says Jonathan Emling, a nurse and the ECMO director at Ascension Saint Thomas in Nashville: "We will train these people, and ...