In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...

Rare incidents where ventilator or heavily sedated patients react during emergencies are rooted in well-documented survival ...

Q. Do you consider the use of mechanical ventilation in ALS patients an extraordinary or disproportionate means to prolong life? Would the discontinuation of mechanical ventilation in ALS patients be ...

The use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has expanded in recent years. This ventilation strategy is now recommended for use in various acutely and critically ill patients. NIV is commonly used in ...

Thousands of Americans die each year during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube. Now a Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) study in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

As Covid-19 continues to put pressure on healthcare providers around the world, engineers at the University of Bath have published a mathematical model that could help clinicians to safely allow two ...

Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people per 100,000 adults in the United States require invasive mechanical ...

In the coronavirus pandemic, ventilators, the medical devices that help patients breathe, are highly sought after and hard to find – but they are not always successful. One in six COVID-19 patients ...

Patients on mechanical ventilation for severe COVID-19 pneumonia had similar mortality rates to patients with other forms of severe pneumonia, but those with COVID tended to be kept on ventilation ...

DONGGUAN, GUANGDONG, CHINA, January 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As respiratory health challenges increase globally ...

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The FDA added two more drugs needed to put patients on ventilators to its shortages list as death penalty states across the country stockpile those drugs for lethal injections, The Guardian reported.