Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people per 100,000 adults in the United States require invasive mechanical ...

This spring, more than 200 patients sick with COVID-19 went into Intensive Care Units at three Emory Healthcare hospitals. Of those, 165 were so ill they needed machines to help them breathe. But ...

While ventilators can be lifesaving for severe COVID-19 patients, new data has some doctors worried that the machines could be causing further damage Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at ...

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) announces a critical milestone in its long-standing advocacy to ensure ...

While the number of new covid-19 cases announced Monday was lower than a week ago, patients on ventilators in Arkansas reached a record high of 323 -- 20 more than the previous day -- according to the ...

The field of mechanical ventilation has grown since the iron lung was developed to support the victims of the polio epidemic the 1950s. Positive-pressure ventilation via an artificial airway has ...

New York’s largest hospital system is conducting a sweeping analysis of its use of ventilators while treating coronavirus patients during the peak of the pandemic. The study comes as experts have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The computerized decision support tool was paired with esophageal manometry. A greater proportion of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer early ventilator-associated pneumonia cases occurred among patients with brain injury receiving ...

Music therapy could significantly reduce heart rate, blood pressure and patient–ventilator asynchronies for patients admitted ...

Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace Armant’s ability to speak, but the 84-year-old still has plenty to say about her insurance. UnitedHealthcare has rejected several requests from her doctors for ...