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ECMO stands for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation. It is the use of a
heart-lung bypass machine on infants and children who are suffering from
severe heart and lung failure. The treatment allows a baby's or child's
blood to be oxygenated (meaning to add oxygen to the blood) outside the
body. In other words, the machine takes over the functions of the heart
and lungs. ECMO is an intensive treatment and is used only when other
treatments - such as medications, mechanical ventilation - are not
working.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has the highest volume ECMO program
and the most experience in northern California. Since its inception in
1988, more than 300 infants have been treated with ECMO in our neonatal
intensive care unit.
Five of our neonatologists are specially trained on ECMO and we
consistently have excellent outcomes, meeting or exceeding national
benchmarks. Through a unique collaboration among perinatologists,
geneticists and pediatric cardiologists, we also offer fetal diagnosis
and ECMO management.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000
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