I guess somewhere between running between the kid on ECMO and trying to draw blood from an arm the size of my index finger, I just plum forgot about it. |
Like the FDA, they also identified special risk categories like ECMO therapy used for premature infants. |
The national ECMO centre in Leicester has five beds but all are being used. |
Ten years ago, there were about a hundred cases of adult ECMO for lung failure reported to ELSO per year. |
The FDA safety assessment and the Health Canada safety assessment were finalized before this ECMO follow-up study. |
There is NO confirmatory harm data, even for therapies like ECMO, and yet here product replacement is recommended by the panel. |