Every year more than 300,000 people in the U.S. die from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, making it a leading cause of death. Improved access to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and ...

Compared with cardiac arrest patients assigned to conventional CPR, those assigned to receive extracorporeal CPR (eCPR) after arrival at the hospital had similar rates of survival with favorable ...

February 1, 2021 - Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is a potentially lifesaving treatment for patients in cardiac arrest when the circulation can't be restored by conventional CPR.