A new, high-tech approach called ECPR can restart more hearts and save more lives. Why aren’t more hospitals embracing it?
"...Worldwide, cardiac arrest — when the heart suddenly stops beating — strikes some five million people a year outside a hospital setting. In the United States, that figure is nearly 400,000. And in 2021, of those who were fortunate enough to have a bystander call 911 and have emergency medical services come to their assistance, only around 9 percent survived long enough to be discharged from a hospital — a dismal number that has barely budged in decades..."
Could extracorporeal CPR (ECPR) be a game changer?
Read more in The New York Times Magazine.