For the first time, AdventHealth held a special event for people in Littleton and Denver to reunite with the care teams that saved their lives during heart or lung failure.
ECMO or Impella support is an advanced form of life support that can be the last treatment option when a patient’s organs are failing. Care teams use this process to help patients in critical condition by taking over the work of the heart and lungs, circulating blood outside the body to add oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
On Sunday, ECMO survivors and their families gathered for AdventHealth’s first picnic to reunite them with the doctors and nurses who saved them.
Survivors like Jenna Phillips, a 35-year-old mother of three who contracted a case of strep throat, which turned into something much more serious. Now, Phillips tells AdventHealth that she has been given a new lease on life…