Doctors hope it will improve the chances of someone surviving.
Dr James Raitt, research lead at Thames Valley Air Ambulance, said: "Our critical care crews have been trained to quickly identify the patients who will benefit the most from E-CPR and then enact our procedures for ensuring the patient arrives as quickly as possible for the treatment."National Institute for Health and Care ExcellenceDoctors hope that patients will be hooked up to the machine within 60 minutes from the cardiac arrest to give people the best chance of survival.
"An ECMO machine takes over the function of a patient's heart and lungs by taking deoxygenated blood out of the patient and inserting oxygenated blood back into them. "This new service, combining CPR with placing patients on ECMO, has the potential to save more lives than we are able to do with CPR alone."
Dr Alex Rosenberg, intensive care consultant at Harefield Hospital, said there were currently a limited number of NHS centres in the UK which can deliver ECMO. He said the scheme was currently a pilot project but added the hospital would work "with our partners across the NHS about the viability of the model being rolled out to other ECMO centres across the UK".
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