'This virus nearly ended my life,” the Arizona physician said. He recovered with help from a life-support system that isn't widely available.
. The machine connects to the veins and arteries in a patient's legs, neck or chest via a series of plastic tubes. The person's blood then flows through the ECMO system, which adds oxygen and removes carbon dioxide, before returning to the person's body.
Instead of a ventilator forcing as much oxygen into a person's body as possible, the ECMO machine does the entirety of the gas exchange and brings oxygenated blood to all of the patient's organs, according to, a nonprofit consortium of health care groups that evaluates therapies for failing organ systems.
Medical experts, however, emphasize that the life support system is not a cure for the virus and far from a sure thing.Of the 192 coronavirus patients in North America who have been put on an ECMO machine and then removed from it, 99 or 51 percent survived, according to the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization.
Stead's organization is now working on a study to examine the system's effectiveness in treating patients with COVID-19, with data help from Amazon and IBM.
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