NEW YORK — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: ...

Real-time monitoring of patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA) and respiratory parameters is important in patients with severe ...

At hospitals facing a flood of people infected with the new coronavirus and a shortage of equipment to treat them, an unspoken question looms over every medical interaction: Will this COVID-19 patient ...

This spring, more than 200 patients sick with COVID-19 went into Intensive Care Units at three Emory Healthcare hospitals. Of those, 165 were so ill they needed machines to help them breathe. But ...

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 ...

While the number of new covid-19 cases announced Monday was lower than a week ago, patients on ventilators in Arkansas reached a record high of 323 -- 20 more than the previous day -- according to the ...

Many people permanently on ventilators prefer to live at home as long as they can. But care there can be perilous and pricey. Some state health programs pay for ventilator care for low-income patients ...

As skilled nursing facilities that provide care for ventilator-dependent patients across Pennsylvania closed their doors due to lack of state funding over roughly the past two years, Transitions ...

Infants and newborns can now breathe easier at St. Charles Bend, due to a new ventilator technology in the hospital's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer early ventilator-associated pneumonia cases occurred among patients with brain injury receiving ...

On vacation in Mexico last year, Michael DiPlacido passed out twice while scuba diving and again in his hotel. Back in St. Louis, Mo., doctors diagnosed him with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, ...