Increasingly, physicians are using a new technique, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation—eCPR—to resuscitate patients. The technique involves a machine that withdraws and pumps oxygenated blood back into a patient's body under pressure. According to emergency room physician Dr. Scott Youngquist, the performance rate of eCPR to help patients survive is better than traditional methods of emergency chest compression. Learn more about how the eCPR method works and what its future may be.