FAU newsInfluenza triggers respiratory failure: Hannah’s temporary lung
After influenza triggered severe respiratory failure in three-year old Hannah, an interdisciplinary ECMO team brought the little girl to Erlangen for treatment. “I saw the X-ray of her lungs,” reports Hannah’s mother, Laura C., who is also a nurse. “And I knew straight away what it meant: all white. Basically no gas exchange at all […]After influenza triggered severe respiratory failure in three-year old Hannah, an interdisciplinary ECMO team brought the little girl to Erlangen for treatment. “I saw the X-ray of her lungs,” reports Hannah’s mother, Laura C., who is also a nurse. “And I knew straight away what it meant: all white. Basically no gas exchange at all […]