ECMO as a Bridge to Recovery: DPU Super Specialty Hospital’s 24/7 ECMO Retrieval Team Saves Critically Ill H1N1 Pneumonia Patient
Sep 08, 2026
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], September 8: With H1N1 and severe respiratory infections continuing to be a concern across the country, the importance of early recognition of respiratory deterioration and access to advanced critical care therapies such as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly relevant. In a life-threatening case of H1N1 pneumonia, the Critical Care Medicine team and dedicated 24/7 ECMO Retrieval Team at DPU Super Specialty Hospital, Pimpri, Pune, successfully supported a critically ill patient whose oxygen saturation had dropped to critically low levels of below 40 percent helping bridge him through severe respiratory failure towards recovery.
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