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In recent days, the pressure on intensive care units has increased due to a spike in numbers of gravely ill patients. The patients, aged 65 and 66, were connected to a respirator at hospitals in the north of the country, but they require an ECMO machine, which for some seriously-ill patients is their only chance of surviving.
Dr. Yigal Kassif who heads the ECMO services at Sheba Hospital, and also heads the Israel ECMO Society (a professional union of the Medical Association), told Haaretz that a patient connected to such a machine has a 50 percent chance of surviving.