ECMO

• Stollery Children’s Hospital life-saving ECMO program receives international recognition

  Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation is one of the most advanced life supports available, taking over for the heart and lungs in patients with severe failure of those organs.

  Health

  Mar 13
  
• Wife of Norfolk County farmer who survived COVID-19 to run 90 km for Hamilton fundraiser

  Sarah VanNetten and some of her gym buddies will running to help a HHS fundraising campaign to purchase ECMO machines.

  Health

  Sep 23, 2021
  
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• Norfolk farmer goes home after months in Hamilton ICU with COVID-19

  Hospitalized for nearly three months, Mike VanNetten bid farewell to a number of Hamilton doctors and nurses who aided his recovery.

  Health

  Jul 1, 2021
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• HHS hospitals to ramp up non-urgent surgeries, ease visitor policies as COVID-19 numbers drop

  Execs with Hamilton Health Sciences are hoping to achieve about 70 per cent in surgical volume by next week.

  Health

  Jun 10, 2021
• Hamilton reports 2 new COVID-19 deaths, HHS says drop in ICU cases continues to be slow

  Hamilton Health Sciences is reporting a slow decline with COVID-19 cases in ICU's despite a quicker drop in hospitalizations.

  Health

  May 28, 2021
• When a ventilator isn’t enough: Why younger COVID-19 patients can need artificial lungs

  As COVID-19 variants push younger patients into Canadian ICUs, medical teams are resorting to artificial lungs, or ECMO, to save them.

  Health

  Apr 26, 2021
• ‘I thought she was dead’: Woman revived after 6 hours in cardiac arrest

  British woman Audrey Mash developed hypothermia that caused her heart to stop while hiking in the Pyrenees mountains of Spain.

  Trending

  Dec 6, 2019
• Woman credits St. Boniface Hospital tech and expert care for saved life

  A Winnipeg woman owes her life to the care and specialized technology at St. Boniface Hospital. Erin Thomas suffered a heart attack in February 2017.

  Health

  Jul 12, 2018
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• Moving the Children’s: A nurse’s walk down memory lane

  Kathy Kehoe started working as a nurse in May of 1979. The mother of three spent most of her career working the overnight shift in the neo-natal intensive care unit at the Montreal Children's Hospital.

  Canada

  May 20, 2015