What is ECMO and how can it save the sickest of children?
Mike Stephenson Senior lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
ECMO can support children with primary respiratory and cardiac failure
Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a technology capable of providing short-term mechanical support to the heart and/or lungs (Millar et al 2016).
Nursing Children and Young People.
33, 6, 19-19.
doi: 10.7748/ncyp.33.6.19.s9
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