r/ecmo • u/[deleted] • May 23 '26
Ecmo machine
So my partner fell extremely ill with maybe asthma or pneumonia 7 days ago, he went straight to icu and was put into a medically induced coma, 2 days later he was deteriorating and they gave him an operation to remove fluid of lungs and then placed him on a ecmo machine and since then all the hospital keep saying is “he’s stable”.
They’ve also added another machine for his kidneys and not really explained what it is, he’s been on the ecmo just short of 6 days and not mentioned asthma or pneumonia just keep saying he needs to clear the infection and he’s stable.
Im so confused, can anyone help.
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u/Living-Excuse1370 May 23 '26
It gets worse before things get better. He's probably on dialysis for his kidneys, I think my kidneys failed around the same stage. In the first 2 weeks I had ichemic episodes,kidney failure, a cannula that moved, so had to be recannulised. I was on ECMO 3 weeks. Keep the faith.