Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rise in discussion of ventilation support was due to two articles published in the June issue of CHEST being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...