Neckepur SAS signed a licensing agreement with Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) to develop an in vitro diagnostic technology to optimize the medical devices used in extracorporeal ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reminding healthcare providers and facilities about the recent recall of certain oxygenators used for extracorporeal circulation. On May 18, Getinge/Maquet ...

The use of active mechanical circulatory support is growing rapidly around the world. The hope is that these systems will improve survival after the most severe form of acute heart failure, ...

After suffering a cardiac arrest, a Chinese man survived for over 40 hours without a heartbeat. He was put on ECMO treatment, ...

When doing open-heart surgery, the surgeon needs a still heart and lungs to work. The patient still needs oxygen circulated through the bloodstream to survive. Thus, cardiovascular perfusionists (also ...

Two minutes into cardiac arrest—when the heart stops pumping and blood ceases to flow to the body's organs—brain cells begin to die. It only takes another five minutes for irreversible neurological ...

Compared with cardiac arrest patients assigned to conventional CPR, those assigned to receive extracorporeal CPR (eCPR) after arrival at the hospital had similar rates of survival with favorable ...