This patient
Blood Plasma treatment for coronavirus
we knew was too weak to be transported to receive ECMO, and died before he could be flown to another hospital for this treatment - oxygenating blood via direct capillary action.

There is now a team that travels Southern California hospitals providing ECMO treatment remotely to coronavirus patients without having to transport them.
UCSD team travels at a moment�s notice to invasively oxygenate the blood of dying patients - The San Diego Union-Tribune