ECMO

He remembers saying good night to them in a call from the hospital just before being connected to ECMO.

One patient spent time connected to a ventilator; the other two were so debilitated that they required months on a heart-lung bypass machine called ECMO.

Unable to breathe, Rodríguez required two months on ECMO.

She explained various medical procedures and the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine, or ECMO, that was keeping her alive.

Also known as ECMO, it is a last resort, invasive treatment involving a machine that siphons blood out of the patient, runs it through an oxygenator and pumps it back into the body.