Code Blue sounded throughout the fifth-floor intensive care unit of Adventist Health Glendale medical center. Bland followed with the ECMO machine, an odd-looking assemblage of plastic tubes, circuitry, valves and digital display. Bland handed Benharash two tubes from the ECMO machine and made sure there were no air bubbles in the system. “Let’s go on.”They removed the clamps, and Bland started the pump inside the ECMO machine. The carbon dioxide level in Lopez’s blood was so high it could not be accurately measured.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 12, 2021 11:02 UTC