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For critical COVID patients, ECMO is a risky last-ditch treatment where a machine does the work of the heart and the lungs. But only half of COVID patients who are put on ECMO survive, a statistic ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -What would you do if you were told both your mother and brother were admitted to the ICU battling COVID-19? At the start of the New Year, Bay County native Corina ...

Since the start of the pandemic, the state has reported daily on how many ventilators are available for use in a nod to the role these machines can play in treating the sickest COVID-19 patients. Over ...

Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, James Perkinson's voice is raspy. In late February, he'd just been taken off ECMO, where the blood is piped outside ...