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How does ECMO improve the survival rate of babies?

April 26, 2017babies ecmo rate survival

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How does ECMO improve the survival rate of babies?

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ECMO works by taking over the function of the heart and or the lungs allowing us to rest the lungs and avoid the need to use damagingly high oxygen concentrations and/or high pressures within the baby’s lung. Before ECMO pediatricians had little choice.