Interesting. ECMO has been around for a while, I know people who were kept alive by it waiting for transplant. This seems to be a new version of it. I need to learn more.
ECMO reminds me of Rumsfeld’s brilliant observation “if a problem seems like it has no solution, enlarge the problem’.
Is the problem that the lungs failed and there are no new lungs to give the patient right now? Nope, enlarge it. The problem is we can’t get oxygen into the patient’s blood and carbon dioxide removed from it. Ok, that maybe we can solve.
