The proportion of patients with postoperative pulmonary complications in the first 5 days after thoracic surgery did not ...

Mechanical ventilation saves lives, but the airflow it produces inside an intubated airway can also shape conditions linked to complications during long-term support. In a recent study, SUNY ...

Mechanical ventilation is a critical life-saving intervention for patients who cannot breathe adequately on their own. Doctors decide to use a ventilator after carefully evaluating a patient’s oxygen ...

Ventilators can be lifesaving for critically ill COVID-19 patients. A social media claim that a new study shows ventilators killed “nearly all” COVID-19 patients is “quite wrong,” according to the ...

SAN ANTONIO – Having enough ventilators early on during the COVID-19 pandemic was a huge issue for cities and states, but then came the complications from using them so much. According to UT Health ...

Statistics around mechanical ventilation tell a sobering story. Every year, 2.5 million U.S. patients require mechanical ventilation in order to support breathing in a variety of life-threatening ...

Although the 28-day mortality for patients with respiratory failure did not differ between patients with and without respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), complications were more common in those with RSV ...