Lung therapy helps swine flu victims, say researchers
SWINE flu patients with respiratory failure should be given a specialist lung treatment, researchers said today.
The treatment – which helped pregnant woman Sharon Pentleton, from Ayrshire – saves one patient for every six compared with conventional treatment.
There is only one adult unit in the UK which offers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). It involves circulating the patient's blood outside the body and adding oxygen to it.
Ms Pentleton had to be flown to Stockholm for the treatment in July because the UK's unit in Leicester was full.
Research in The Lancet said patients with severe but potentially reversible respiratory failure should be treated with ECMO to "improve survival without severe disability".
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