Chinese coronavirus patient recovers after more than 100 days on controversial life support machine

A coronavirus patient from China has left hospital after the longest-ever stay on a controversial life support machine, according to media reports.The 62-year-old man spent 111 days on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, almost twice as long as previous patients. He was discharged from a hospital in Guangzhou last week, according to state news agency Xinhua.The treatment was pioneered in the 1970s to treat babies in intensive care, but its use on adults has proved…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3099491/chinese-coronavirus-patient-recovers-after-more-100-days