Volume 224 - Issue 9
They Brought the Hospital to Me
Authors: Hugh N. Burrill
Correspondence: ecmosupport@monash.edu
Med J Aust 2026 || doi: 10.5694/mja2.70281
Published online: 1 September 2026
Published online: 1 September 2026
Abstract
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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