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When a ventilator isn’t enough: Why younger COVID-19 patients can need artificial lungs

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2015 study, about 40 intensive care units in Canada can provide ECMO.At the moment, at least two patients in Alberta are using the technology.

In Ontario, there are at least a dozen.Amin says Hamilton Health Sciences has already borrowed four machines from the federal government’s emergency stock.“We’ve had to add more supplies, more equipment, train a lot of our staff that weren’t previously trained — all in a pinch — within the storm that we’re in,” Amin said.“It’s not what any of us had ever thought we would ever live through.”Each ECMO patient requires at least one or two dedicated nurses, along with perfusionists, surgeons, respiratory therapists and anesthesiologists..

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