Critically ill COVID-19 patient on ECMO successfully survived lung transplant
As a cardiac surgeon with extensive experience of lung transplantations, Dr. Wojciech Karolak is used to performing complicated procedures. However, a recent case involving a critically ill female COVID-19 patient on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) became an extraordinary lifesaving experience. “The lung transplant cured the patient, but it was ECMO that saved her life,” says Dr. Wojciech Karolak. “Recent statistics* show that 50 percent of COVID-19 patients treated with ECMO survive. This therapy gave them a second chance at life.” The female patient was already