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 ...

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

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, is in critical condition after contracting the first presumptive case of bird flu in ...

Whenever I intubate a patient, I always assume it's going to be a chaotic situation. That way, if it's not, it's smooth sailing, and if it is, I'm ready. Emergency medicine training prepares ...

It is designed to meet the ventilation needs of even the most critically ill patients, yet it is flexible enough to be used nearly anywhere in your hospital. Savina 300 ventilatorstake this ...

A recent study has linked long-term positive airway pressure therapy with improved survival in patients with COPD and ...

The layout can be customised to display the optional integrated patient monitoring ... based assistance system which adapts ventilation to physiology from intubation until extubation.

All patients were initially intubated and received mechanical ventilation. These trials evaluated the sedative properties of Precedex by comparing the amount of rescue medication (midazolam in one ...

Imagine a frail, 91-year-old patient who is ill and approaching ... defibrillation, intubation and mechanical ventilation — even though her physician told her family the procedures would likely ...