Dirty Harryover 2 years ago

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Strong little angels in the operating room. This little one is with an open thorax and ECMO support. ECMO stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Extracorporeal means outside of the body. A membrane oxygenator is a piece of equipment which acts as a lung to deliver oxygen into the child's blood. The ECMO circuit acts as an artificial heart and lung for heart or lung surgery.