"......Dr. Jeffrey DellaVolpe, a pulmonologist and the director of the ECMO program at San Antonio Methodist Hospital told CNN that this explosion of cases is not something he and other healthcare professionals were at all prepared for.
"Yesterday was probably the worst day I ever had," DellaVolpe said. "I got 10 calls. Young people who would otherwise be excellent candidates to be able to put on ECMO."
ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), is a therapy that adds oxygen to one's blood and pumps it through their body.
"They're so sick that if they don't get put on, if they don't get the support, they are going to die," DellaVolpe explained.
The problem is, DellaVolpe explained that he only had three beds available in the unit of the hospital that provides ECMO......"
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