Protein found to predict brain injury in children on 'ECMO' life support

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 12:03 in Health & Medicine

Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists have discovered that high blood levels of a protein commonly found in the central nervous system can predict brain injury and death in critically ill children on a form of life support called extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO.

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