Life Support

• Stollery Children’s Hospital life-saving ECMO program receives international recognition

  Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation is one of the most advanced life supports available, taking over for the heart and lungs in patients with severe failure of those organs.

  Health

  Mar 13
  
• Child’s breathing tube can be removed despite parents’ protest: Quebec appeal court

  Doctors have been saying the breathing tube should be removed because it's doing more harm than good and that the child should receive end-of-life care .

  Canada

  Jan 18, 2023
  
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• COVID had him on his deathbed, then frontline hospital workers saved this Sask man’s life

  Rob Friesen was alone at the hospital and in isolation when he was told he had two hours to tell family members he was going on life support. He awoke from a coma two weeks later.

  Health

  Apr 22, 2022
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• Woman dies of injuries in crash with grain truck near St. Thomas, Ont.

  Jessie Reimer and her one-month-old baby Aria were in an SUV travelling westbound when police say it collided with the back of a grain truck on Sept. 30.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2021
• When a ventilator isn’t enough: Why younger COVID-19 patients can need artificial lungs

  As COVID-19 variants push younger patients into Canadian ICUs, medical teams are resorting to artificial lungs, or ECMO, to save them.

  Health

  Apr 26, 2021
• U.S. boy, 12, dies after trying TikTok ‘blackout challenge’

  Joshua Haileyesus was found unconscious after trying the viral choking challenge for TikTok.

  Lifestyle

  Apr 15, 2021
• Calgary scientist who studied COVID-19 survives virus, inspiring others

  A Calgary man who spent years studying the novel coronavirus in China ended up battling COVID-19 himself. He survived and is giving others hope.

  Features

  Mar 23, 2021
• Curve Lake First Nation woman removed from life-support following injuries in assault

  Cileana Taylor, 22, died in hospital late Thursday after family made a decision to remove her from life-support.

  Crime

  Mar 3, 2021
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• Daughter of Burnaby firefighter becomes second victim of fatal Abbotsford crash

  Family friends have confirmed Madeline Stroup, also known as Maddy, is being kept alive to allow doctors to salvage her organs for donation, which she signed up for when she was 16.

  Aug 2, 2019
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• Woman finds out man she terminated life support for wasn’t her brother, sues hospital

  Shirell Powell is now suing a Bronx hospital over the case of mistaken identity

  World

  Jan 29, 2019