With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

Background The increasing number of patients treated by long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV) challenges the capacity of ...

Investigators examined whether early systemic antibiotic prophylaxis reduces ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence in mechanically ventilated adults with acute brain injury.

All infants in our center with severe respiratory distress syndrome who have required artificial ventilation with 80–100 % O 2 for more than 5 days have shown abnormalities in the lungs with ...

Supporting patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), remains a critical challenge in intensive care units ...

The term “life support” refers to any combination of machines and medication that keeps a person’s body alive when their organs would otherwise stop working. Usually people use the words life support ...

Berto Pandolfo works for the University of Technology Sydney, and at times he receives funding to support his research and writing. Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture ...

The cumulative influenza-associated hospitalization rate for the 2024 to 2025 season surpassed all end-of-season rates during the period beginning with the 2010 to 2011 season, according to research ...

The global artificial ventilation and anesthesia masks market is predicted to grow rapidly over the next several years, according to a new report by Grand View Research. 1. It is expected to reach a ...

In a multicenter, double-blind trial, we randomly assigned mechanically ventilated adults with sepsis to receive dexmedetomidine (0.2 to 1.5 μg per kilogram of body weight per hour) or propofol (5 to ...