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1 month, 1 week ago

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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4 years, 1 month ago

Father-of-two 52, who survived coronavirus, undergoes life-saving double lung transplant

Daily Mail

A New Mexico father-of-two has undergone a life-saving double lung transplant after a four-month-long battle with the novel coronavirus. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Father-of-two Arthur Sanchez, 52, from Las Cruces, New Mexico, has undergone a life-saving double lung transplant after a four-month-long battle with coronavirus. Pictured: Sanchez, with his wife, Michaela left; and grilling, right After being weaned off of …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Singer SP Balasubrahmanyam Still on Ventilator and ECMO Support in ICU, Says Hospital