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They Brought the Hospital to Me
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.
Hugh N. Burrill