Adult ECMO Program

What is ECMO? ECMO stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ECMO is a therapy for people who have serious forms of heart and lung disease Like a heart-

ECMO is a type of life support used to save people with severe lung or heart failure It involves pumping your blood with an external machine

ecmo Both VV ECMO and VA ECMO can be used as a rescue therapy in acute respiratory failure to buy time and maintaining life awaiting improvement of the underlying

ecmo ECMO supports people who are in severe heart or lung failure Royal Papworth Hospital is one of five centres commissioned by NHS England to provide ECMO to