Only about 8% of patients who have cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive. That rate is even lower for certain patients who do not respond to defibrillation. A new service being launched by Mayo Clinic Ambulance in Rochester, Minnesota, is hoping to improve outcomes and save more lives by getting patients faster access to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a form of life support that pumps blood outside of the body to a heart-lung machine, allowing the organs to rest and heal.
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