Published November 24, 2009, 12:00 AM


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Ryan Damm, 19, a swine flu patient whose life was saved by using a lung-bypass technology called ECMO, sees his physician, Dr. Jeff DeMare at Children's Hospital of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., Friday. A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients, by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.

Read the article: Worst swine flu cases treated with lung bypass