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First Successful ECMO Treatment for Two-Month-Old Baby in Andhra Pradesh
1 month, 1 week ago

First Successful ECMO Treatment for Two-Month-Old Baby in Andhra Pradesh

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: A two-month-old baby, weighing only 2.7 kilograms, was diagnosed with a rare and critical heart condition and brought to KIMS Cuddles Hospital in Visakhapatnam. The medical team immediately placed the baby on Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support and performed complex open-heart surgery three days later to correct the condition. The medical team, led by Dr. Nikhil Tenneti, Dr. Santhosh Kumar …

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Two-Month-Old Baby Treated for Rare Heart Condition at KIMS Cuddles Hospital
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Two-Month-Old Baby Treated for Rare Heart Condition at KIMS Cuddles Hospital

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: A two-month-old baby weighing 2.7 kilograms was successfully treated for a rare, and life-threatening heart condition, Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection, at KIMS Cuddles Hospital in Visakhapatnam. Dr. Nikhil Tenneti, Chief Neonatologist at KIMS Cuddles, along with Dr. R. Santosh Kumar, Chief Intensivist in Pediatric ICU, and their team immediately assessed the baby’s deteriorating condition and determined that he …

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Artificial placenta: A new lifeline for premature babies?
5 months, 1 week ago

Artificial placenta: A new lifeline for premature babies?

BBC  

Artificial placenta: A new lifeline for premature babies? Getty Images Artificial placentas and wombs could save the lives of premature babies, but what ethical considerations must be addressed before human trials begin? Getty Images Babies born around 22 weeks face huge challenges and have to receive round-the-clock intensive care "Honestly, 28 weekers and even 27 weekers do overall very well," …

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Hyderabad doctors save 18-month-old suffering from severe pneumonia, perform ECMO in flight from Goa
1 year, 1 month ago

Hyderabad doctors save 18-month-old suffering from severe pneumonia, perform ECMO in flight from Goa

The Hindu  

In a first-of-its-kind medical feat, a team of doctors from Hyderabad flew to Goa in an air ambulance to rescue an 18-month-old child battling severe pneumonia. It all began on September 15, when senior consultant neonatologist at Rainbow Children’s Hospital Kapil B. Sahane received a distress call from Goa Medical College and Hospital at around 6 p.m. Within six hours …

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ECMO saves the life of an 11-month-old baby in KIMS Cuddles
1 year, 1 month ago

ECMO saves the life of an 11-month-old baby in KIMS Cuddles

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: KIMS Cuddles Gachibowli doctors treated an 11-month-old baby with ECMO support to save her life. Anvika, an 11-month-old baby with severe H1N1 pneumonia, was treated in a private hospital with ventilation as support. was then referred to KIMS Cuddles, Gachibowli for ECMO support she was unable to maintain oxygen levels on ventilator support. Providing ECMO support to children is …

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14-Year-Old's Hands And Legs Amputated Due To Rare Bacterial Infection
1 year, 3 months ago

14-Year-Old's Hands And Legs Amputated Due To Rare Bacterial Infection

News 18  

A 14-year-old boy in the US lost his limbs after contracting a rare and fatal bacterial infection. It was a tough decision for the parents of Mathias Uribe, to give permission to the doctors to amputate his hands and legs after his condition deteriorated in mid-June. According to the details shared on Mathias’ GoFundMe page, initially, the teen was taken …

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NRI septuagenarian undergoes bilateral lung transplant at Chennai hospital after being on ECMO for over 50 days
1 year, 5 months ago

NRI septuagenarian undergoes bilateral lung transplant at Chennai hospital after being on ECMO for over 50 days

The Hindu  

A 78-year-old patient with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome underwent a high-risk lung transplantation at MGM Healthcare, Chennai. Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare, said this was probably the first case in Asia where a 78-year-old who was on ECMO for nearly two months had undergone a successful bilateral lung transplant. “Normally when an older patient’s condition does not improve after …

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Third China domestic ECMO products approved for marketing
1 year, 10 months ago

Third China domestic ECMO products approved for marketing

China Daily  

On February 23, 2023, the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation auxiliary device and centrifugal pump head of Jiangsu STMed Technology Inc. is approved with conditions through emergency review by China NMPA. During the registration and application process of this product, the NMPA in accordance with the principle of "unified command, early intervention, fast and efficient, and scientific review and approval", with specific …

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Second China domestic ECMO products approved for marketing
1 year, 11 months ago

Second China domestic ECMO products approved for marketing

China Daily  

On January 17, 2023, the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation auxiliary device of RocketMedical Co., Ltd. is approved with conditions through emergency review by China NMPA. The product is composed of Revive-I ECMO, flow/bubble sensor, emergency drive, emergency drive holder, pressure connection cable, oxygenator holder, medical gas holder and cart. The marketing of the product will further improve China's ECMO product supply …

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Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, families
2 years, 5 months ago

Scars of COVID persist for sickest survivors, families

LA Times  

Freddy Fernandez sits with his fiancee, Vanessa Cruz, and their 8-month-old daughter, Mariana Fernandez, in their home in Carthage, Mo., last month. Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap gnawing on the pulse oximeter he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19. The 41-year-old father …

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Even with risky survival rate, shortages of ECMO machines cost lives, study finds
2 years, 8 months ago

Even with risky survival rate, shortages of ECMO machines cost lives, study finds

NPR  

Even with risky survival rate, shortages of ECMO machines cost lives, study finds Enlarge this image toggle caption Kacie Perkinson Kacie Perkinson Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, James Perkinson's voice is raspy. And a study published in The Lancet in late September found that the number of COVID patients dying on ECMO had …

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After 169 hospitals, a dad finally got the Covid-19 care he needed – and changed dozens of skeptics’ minds
3 years, 3 months ago

After 169 hospitals, a dad finally got the Covid-19 care he needed – and changed dozens of skeptics’ minds

CNN  

CNN — Every breath Robby Walker takes is one that almost didn’t happen. But “all the beds are taken up by Covid victims also getting ECMO treatment,” Susan Walker said at that time. Striking out after 169 hospitals in several states Ten days after Robby was intubated, a doctor told Susan her husband most likely “was not going to make …

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Anaesthetist, who contracted COVID-19, undergoes double lung transplant
3 years, 3 months ago

Anaesthetist, who contracted COVID-19, undergoes double lung transplant

The Hindu  

A 30-year-old anaesthetist and intensivist, who contracted COVID-19 on duty during the second wave and suffered acute lung damage, got a new lease of life after a team of doctors at Aster CMI Hospital performed a bilateral lung transplant. A team of critical care consultants, pulmonologists and lung transplant surgeons at Aster CMI Hospital in Bengaluru and KIMS Heart and …

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After 49 days on life support, woman beats all odds to survive COVID-19
3 years, 3 months ago

After 49 days on life support, woman beats all odds to survive COVID-19

Firstpost  

Survival chances of COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation, whose lungs leak air, are usually next to zero, said Kumari Ranjana’s doctor New Delhi: A 47-year old woman, who was put on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation support for 28 days and ventilator for 21 days, beat all odds to defeat COVID-19, a private hospital that treated her claimed. Kumari Ranjana, a professor …

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Covid-positive Chennai man spends 109 days on ECMO and ventilator, recovers without lung transplant
3 years, 4 months ago

Covid-positive Chennai man spends 109 days on ECMO and ventilator, recovers without lung transplant

Live Mint  

In what is perhaps India’s longest ECMO battle against COVID-19, a Chennai man diagnosed with coronavirus and resultant lung complications spent about 109 days on ECMO and ventilator support and recovered without having to undergo a lung transplant, the city hospital which treated him said on Thursday. Mudijja, a 56-year-old from Chennai stepped out of the hospital as a healthy …

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India's Longest Surviving Covid Patient on ECMO and Ventilator for a Record 109 Days, Recovers Without Lung Transplant
3 years, 4 months ago

India's Longest Surviving Covid Patient on ECMO and Ventilator for a Record 109 Days, Recovers Without Lung Transplant

News 18  

In what is perhaps India’s longest ECMO battle against Covid-19, Rela Hospital, a Multi-Speciality Quaternary Care Hospital in Chennai saved the life of Mudijja, a 56-year-old diagnosed with Covid infection and the resultant lung complications after a record of 109 days of treatment. When Mudijja stepped out of the hospital as a healthy man on August 19th, 2021, he became …

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Safdarjung only govt hospital in Delhi giving ECMO therapy to Covid-19 patients
3 years, 4 months ago

Safdarjung only govt hospital in Delhi giving ECMO therapy to Covid-19 patients

Hindustan Times  

Safdarjung Hospital is the only government-run facility in Delhi to offer ECMO as the last resort treatment for Covid-19 patients with severely damaged lungs. The patients offered ECMO treatment at Safdarjung hospital were critical and died of other complications. The first one admitted last year died of a heart attack three days after being put on ECMO and the second …

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63-Year-Old Longest Surviving Covid Patient Back Home After 61 Days in Critical Care
3 years, 5 months ago

63-Year-Old Longest Surviving Covid Patient Back Home After 61 Days in Critical Care

News 18  

Ganesh Prasad, a 63-year-old patient who was on critical care support for 61 days, has become the longest surviving COVID patient in the country. The entire process of treatment has been tough for us as well but our team, and the family members of the patient went on supporting us,” said Dr. Soham Majumdar, Prasad’s physician and ECMO specialist at …

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11-year-old boy suffering from MISC, related to Covid, recovers in Kerala
3 years, 5 months ago

11-year-old boy suffering from MISC, related to Covid, recovers in Kerala

New Indian Express  

ECMO pumps and oxygenates a patient's blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest. When a patient is connected to an ECMO, blood flows through tubing into an artificial lung in the machine that adds oxygen and takes out carbon dioxide; then the blood is warmed to body temperature and pumped back into the body. “The intensive …

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Bridge to Recovery: For Covid-19 Patients with Severe Lung Damage, ECMO Support is a Ray of Hope
3 years, 7 months ago

Bridge to Recovery: For Covid-19 Patients with Severe Lung Damage, ECMO Support is a Ray of Hope

News 18  

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support is now being used in several hospitals to help severe COVID patients, who have acute pneumonia or lung damage, and in cases where ventilators are failing to maintain blood oxygen levels. Dr Suresh Rao, Co-Director of Heart and Lung Transplant at MGM Chennai, told News18.com that ECMO support is basically an artificial lung outside the patient’s …

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Kate Garraway reveals texts Covid victim husband Derek Draper sent before he was put in induced coma
3 years, 7 months ago

Kate Garraway reveals texts Covid victim husband Derek Draper sent before he was put in induced coma

Daily Mail  

I'm painfully aware that Derek would have wanted to tell his own story – and one day he still may. I couldn't help but feel, though, that for all his banter, Derek might actually be right – and that something rather magical was going on this New Year. Kate Garraway's husband Derek thought 2020 was going to be her year …

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She was dying of COVID-19. Her last hope would save her or kill her
3 years, 9 months ago

She was dying of COVID-19. Her last hope would save her or kill her

LA Times  

Blanca Lopez was drowning. Once stabilized on the ECMO machine, Blanca Lopez was transported from Glendale Adventist hospital to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. “We knew if we didn’t get her back on ECMO, she wouldn’t live through the night,” Valentine said, “or until her family could get here.” She phoned Criztiaan. “I know you’re going to hold on to …

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Nurse who gave birth while ill with Covid meets daughter for first time
3 years, 10 months ago

Nurse who gave birth while ill with Covid meets daughter for first time

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An NHS nurse who has no memory of giving birth …

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Baby deaths 'cluster' at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital prompts official review
4 years, 2 months ago

Baby deaths 'cluster' at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital prompts official review

ABC  

Health authorities have launched a review into a "cluster" of baby deaths at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital after a parliamentary committee heard a lack of infant heart and life support services was to blame. Key points: A doctor has blamed the death of several babies on a lack of key services at the hospital Health authorities will review the …

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