June 27, 2014
Revisiting our first ECMO patient
“They called me and told me to make a decision right away, because my daughter was near death,” recalls Kathy about the day her baby girl was born in November 1995. Kathy never imagined her full-term newborn, Rachael, would need a life-saving therapy. If it worked, Rachael would be the first neonatal patient at UNC to survive as a result of ECMO.