TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government will consider support to increase production of ECMO machines, used in a potentially life-saving treatment for coronavirus patients, as a part of an economic package to deal with the outbreak, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Thursday.
Extracorporeal Membranous Oxygenation, or ECMO, machines pump oxygen directly into a patient while removing carbon dioxide, replacing someone’s breathing.
(Reporting by Hiroko Hamada, writing by Kaori Kaneko, Editing by Chris Gallagher)
