Full disclosure- I design medical devices like these, including many blood pumps and an ecmo device or two. Ecmo is just now becoming (semi) widely adopted. U

Full disclosure- I design medical devices like these, including many blood pumps and an ecmo device or two. Ecmo is just now becoming (semi) widely adopted. Until recently hospitals had to cobble together their own systems from a collection of pumps, oxygenators, tubing and monitoring equipment. Only in the last few years have integrated systems and platforms come to market. These devices are in their first iterations, it's still early times. The hardware tech and medicine are both evolving rapidly and thus so is the standard of care. As is my experience with similar devices in the next ten years the ~50% survival rate will steadily creap up to above 80%, and the adoption will follow. My experience in another, related space makes me very confident. LVADs, left ventricular assist devices awere once a sci fi dream and are now common, and extremely effective. People with what once was end stage heart failure are able to live for a decade or more having their heart supported by a tiny implanted pump the size of a F battery that spins at thousands of RPMs all day, every day. In many cases it's a better option than a heart transplant. It's so mainstream now that as of a few years ago the two most successful LVAD companies are now divisions of Medtronic and Abbott after large acquisitions. Next up is ECMO and artificial hearts. Anyone interested in whats next in this space should check out Ventriflo www.ventriflo.com, Bivavor www.bivacor.com and for some great history read "Ticker" by wired author Mimi Swartz. There is so much more...