February 3, 2021 Inside of the U of M Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium truck.
University of Minnesota, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and health care system partners announce the launch of a truck outfitted with medical equipment and virtual reality technology to help experts attend to patients remotely for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Part of the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium (MMRC), the truck brings the emergency room to cardiac arrest patients and is an innovative step in providing care to cardiac arrest patients who need to be placed on ECMO.
“This approach will allow experts to administer treatment on-site in the vehicle shortening the time to treatment and broadening the area served by MMRC,” said Jason Bartos, president of the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium and assistant professor in the Medical School. “Every 10-minute delay in treatment for these patients increases the chances of mortali