The chief reason that patients are admitted to an intensive care unit is to receive ventilatory support. In this article, I update the basic principles of mechanical ventilation, which I reviewed in ...

PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Scopus were searched from inception until September 2013 using the following keywords in various combinations: noninvasive ventilation, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Liberation time and mortality in the proportional-assist ventilation group did not differ from the ...

A new study from University of Galway has found high death rates in weaning intensive care patients from ventilation. During this clinical study, carried out in 50 countries, 35% of patients who ...

Three main methods of noninvasive support are used in the acute care setting: a high flow of gas delivered through a large-bore nonocclusive nasal cannula (i.e., high-flow nasal cannula), continuous ...

LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2023) — Critically ill children on ventilator support can experience a mismatch between their breathing efforts and the rhythm delivered by the ventilator. This mismatch, called ...

Ventilators are usually used when a patient's lungs or breathing muscles are unable to function properly, such as during severe lung disease, major surgery, or a serious infection. When is ventilator ...

Using a lung and diaphragm protective ventilation strategy guided by a computerized decision support tool during the acute phase of ventilation shortened the duration of weaning, a pediatric phase II ...

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of high-frequency jet ventilation for transporting critically ill hypoxic neonates to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) center. The pre- and ...

There are speculations that veteran actor Dharmendra has been put on ventilator support at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital. The actor, less than a month short of his 90th birthday, was hospitalised ...

Veteran actor Dharmendra was recently admitted to the hospital due to breathing difficulties and age-related weakness, which led doctors to place him on ventilator support for a short period. As his ...