Inova Children's Hospital
Inova Children’s Hospital has expanded its Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Program to now support the complex needs of newborns and children dealing with either cardiac failure or respiratory failure. ECMO is a type of cardiopulmonary bypass that can provide temporary support of lungs, heart and other organs to patients who are failing conventional treatments. It has been used in the care of more than 75,000 patients. The majority of those patients were newborns with severe respiratory failure soon after birth.