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

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

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 ...

By ARMAND KASSAM My heart is racing faster than the patient on a stretcher in front of me. Yet, I am still numb to the sounds of call bells and alarms creating a cacophony around me. I’m a city boy, ...

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 ...

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

A new analysis reveals where bleeds are most likely to happen and offers some surprising insights on their link with ...

[4] Second, the ERT is unreliable in patients ventilated ... these factors influence intubation dependency to facilitate earlier extubation and successfully increase ventilator- free days.

leading to a higher need for invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). For a study, researchers sought to determine whether ketamine, as a sedative agent, could help improve compliance with NIMV and ...