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ECMO Therapy: An Advanced Form of Life Support That Saves Lives

Heather Dean was a practicing veterinarian when she began to feel an achy joint pain that landed her in the hospital. Heather’s illness progressed, her lungs began to shut down and by the time she was Transported to MedStar Washington Hospital Center her heart had stopped. Under the care of Dr. Eziquiel Molina, with MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute and Dr. Mladen Sokolovic, with MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Heather was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment, an advance form of life support that’s used to restore heart and lung function in patients experiencing cardiac and/or respiratory failure. MedStar Washington Hospital Center is renowned for its ECMO care in the region. ECMO requires a multidisciplinary team of skilled providers in the ICU to care for patients. Some patients can remain on ECMO treatment for up to 3 weeks. Survival rates for this patient population are successful. Heather was later diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and is recovering. She knows the ECMO device saved her life. Learn more about MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute: http://ow.ly/QkYuG Learn more about Dr. Ezequiel Molina: http://ow.ly/QkYp3