Extracorporeal Life Support Helps Patients With Severe COVID-19 Symptoms In Kolkata
Doctors at private hospitals in West Bengal's Kolkata are making use of a different technique to help certain patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms like pneumonia when even ventilators fail to help with their recovery. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO, used traditionally for heart surgeries in children, is now helping hospitals in Kolkata after doctors in Gujarat's Ahmedabad registered some success.
