A new approach to reviving victims of cardiac arrest has a higher rate of success than conventional CPR. By Helen Ouyang Helen Ouyang is a physician and a contributing writer for the magazine. As an ...
Every year more than 300,000 people in the U.S. die from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, making it a leading cause of death. Improved access to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and ...
Increasingly, physicians are using a new technique, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation—eCPR—to resuscitate patients. The technique involves a machine that withdraws and pumps oxygenated ...
eCPR (Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) is an advanced medical procedure that combines traditional CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) ...