Following his allergic response, Ewan needed to be placed on a particular kind of life support known as “extra corporeal membrane oxygenation” (Ecmo).
In which oxygen is pumped throughout the body via an artificial lung. Ewan’s medical team blamed vaping.
For his allergic response and subsequent need to be put on life support, and they were aware of other comparable incidents in the UK.
Before being sent to the hospital, Ewan had a fever, and he claimed to have “a choking cough and I was struggling to breathe” when he recovered.
He ‘nearly died’ and ‘wound up in critical care and required two types of life support’ after his mother became extremely concerned about him and rushed him to the hospital.
