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How hospital uses artificial lungs to save lives

Charlie Nix, ECMO coordinator, demonstrates aspects of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation machine at Northeast Georgia Medical Center on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. This machine circulates blood outside the body, puts in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide. Gainesville is the only hospital in the region with this technology. - photo by Austin Steele

08252018 HOSPITAL 001.jpg — Charlie Nix, ECMO coordinator, demonstrates aspects of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation machine at Northeast Georgia Medical Center on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. This machine circulates blood outside the body, puts in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide. Gainesville is the only hospital in the region with this technology. - photo by Austin Steele

On March 30, 2017, T.J. Veasley was riding in the backseat of a friend’s car on Dawsonville Highway. The group was coming back from Dawsonville and had just stopped for doughnuts.