Each year, about a million people in the U.S. suffer from pulmonary embolism (PE), with symptoms ranging from mild to severe. Evelyn Henry recounts her harrowing experience, from the initial struggle to breathe to the miraculous intervention that saved her life. “I wasn’t feeling well all day and I felt like I couldn’t breathe,” Evelyn recalled. At Northside Hospital Heart Institute, Evelyn became the first patient to benefit from the newly established extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR)