Last year, David Oliver, a well-known magician from Weymouth, needed life-saving support while he waited for a double lung transplant. Under the care of Dr. Jose Garcia, a cardiac surgeon in the Institute for Heart, Vascular and Stroke Care and the Mass General Transplant Center, David was placed on ambulatory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a machine that oxygenates and removes carbon dioxide from the blood outside a patient’s body. Unlike traditional ECMOs, ambulatory ECMOs used at Mass General allow patients to get up, walk around and even begin rehabilitation while they wait for an organ to become available.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:47:42 +0000
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