NPR: ventilator https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=850003006 ventilator en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:13:09 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: ventilator https://www.npr.org/tags/850003006/ventilator Across The COVID-Ravaged South, High-Level Life Support Is Difficult To Find ECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it. Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:00:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/06/1033832562/covid-icu-ecmo-life-support-shortage-hospitals https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/06/1033832562/covid-icu-ecmo-life-support-shortage-hospitals

ECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it.

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]]> Blake Farmer Patients Dying Fast, And Far From Family, Challenge Practice Of Palliative Care For one family who lost both their mother and their father to the coronavirus, palliative care clinicians helped them face "the awful, awful truth." Mon, 04 May 2020 10:49:52 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/04/846485024/patients-dying-fast-and-far-from-family-challenge-practice-of-palliative-care https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/04/846485024/patients-dying-fast-and-far-from-family-challenge-practice-of-palliative-care

For one family who lost both their mother and their father to the coronavirus, palliative care clinicians helped them face "the awful, awful truth."

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