Device at Harborview produces 'miracle' recoveries

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Device at Harborview produces 'miracle' recoveries

February 7, 2018

The trauma unit uses a blood-oxygenating machine to save people who have little other hope of survival.

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UW Medicine physicians Saman Arbabi, left, and Eileen Bulger, right, stand with Navy Cmdr. David Harris, who was saved with help from the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine.

The Seattle Times chronicles the chain of events in two cases in which trauma patients' lives were saved with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines.

Harborview Medical Center employs the devices as the state’s only Level I adult and pediatric trauma and burn center, says Dr. Eileen Bulger, chief of trauma.

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ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)

emergency medicine

trauma