Oral care decreased both the number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the length of stay, as well as the amount of time of mechanical ventilation. Patients on mechanical ventilation who ...

Liberate Medical completes enrollment of its 250-patient PREVENT pivotal trial evaluating VentFree, a breakthrough ventilator weaning device for ICUs.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen fast in the past two weeks after a long, steady increase and the number of critically ill COVID patients has spiked even more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Each additional minute patients spent boarded in the ED led to a 0.026% increase in ICU ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Alcohol misuse vs. no misuse increased the odds for several poor outcomes. Higher odds for mechanical ...

A new, recently licensed medical device developed by UB researchers would introduce into intensive-care settings the powerful and effective method of anesthetizing patients that works so well in the ...

Nurses are often the last face some COVID-19 patients see before they get put on a ventilator. Inside Edition spoke to a traveling ICU nurse, who recorded a reenactment of those moments in full PPE ...

More active efforts to reduce patients' time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their suffering and free up intensive care resources, a thesis at the University of Gothenburg shows. Mechanical ...

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC have found a new mechanism explaining diaphragm weakness that arises during mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). The diaphragm is the most important ...

You have been breathing your whole life without thinking about it. But imagine if a machine — a mechanical ventilator — muscled its way into that delicate, unconscious dance. It is trying to help, but ...

Surgically opening the windpipe, or trachea, within the first seven days of the start of mechanical ventilation decreases the time patients spend on ventilators, shortens their ICU stay and lowers ...