What if your loved one is literally suffocating - from lung disease, or even from severe influenza? What can doctors do to get oxygen into their body when their own lungs aren’t able to do it? In that desperate situation, there’s ECMO. WVU Medicine’s John Phillips and thoracic surgeon Jeremiah Hayanga explain a technique regularly used by WVU Medicine doctors to oxygenate blood without the help of a person’s lungs.
