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Case report demonstrates successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using mobile extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, suggesting the viability of prehospital bypass protocols.
I collapsed at the gym when a massive pulmonary embolism caused my heart to stop. Unbelievably I survived thanks to a clinical trial delivering an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) heart-lung bypass machine directly to me at the gym. Hopefully out-of-hospital ECMO becomes an accepted emergency strategy to save more lives.
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