Ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is an important and relatively common condition among mechanically ventilated patients. Dixon and associates sought to determine if nebulized heparin might ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released the Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients. The toolkit helps intensive care unit staff to apply principles and methods ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of patients with COPD who were hospitalized and mechanically ventilated. In mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Rare incidents where ventilator or heavily sedated patients react during emergencies are rooted in well-documented survival ...

June 14, 2012 — Editor's note: Oversedation, immobility, and delirium have serious implications for critically ill patients who are on mechanical ventilation. There is a protocol that can lessen these ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Across several subgroups, pantoprazole decreased clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding more than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A similar proportion of patients receiving conservative oxygen therapy and patients receiving usual oxygen ...

Patients on mechanical ventilation for severe COVID-19 pneumonia had similar mortality rates to patients with other forms of severe pneumonia, but those with COVID tended to be kept on ventilation ...

Medical workers of the ICU ,intensive care unit, ventilate a COVID-19 patient in severe condition by turning the patient into prone position. (Photo by Wang Yuguo/Xinhua via Getty) As COVID-19 case ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Editor's note: This story was updated on at 2:55 pm E.D.T to include a joint statement from a ...

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...