It is not known how the teen contracted bird flu, according to British Columbia health officials Getty Ventilator monitor ...

He needed a breathing tube -- that is, I was going to have to temporarily paralyze him, prop open his mouth, and place a plastic tube down into his trachea, which we would then connect to a ...

Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people ...

Mission Hospital is trying to rebuild its Ethics Committee. This Committee is an important point of contact between the community and hospital.

The ventilator, which assists the lungs in breathing, is compatible with MRI scans, allowing intubated patients in the Intensive Care Unit to undergo these essential scans without being transferred to ...

In turn, according to news reports, a patient may require emergency intubation and mechanical ventilation to survive. In order to place traditional ventilator tubes into the throat, doctors and nurses ...

A comprehensive and prospective study on intubation ... In this study, patients who failed extubation and required reintubation went on to have longer average durations of ventilation.

This edition of “Current Concepts in the Management of the Difficult Airway” marks the 21st anniversary of this biannual review.

Aspiration of oropharyngeal and subglottic secretions is a major contributor to the pathogenesis of VAP. ETTs with subglottic secretion drainage (SSD) are specially designed tubes with a separate ...

A man suspected of having coronavirus has died after family members allegedly unplugged the ventilator he was connected to so they ... He was shifted to an isolation ward on June 15 after another ...