The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the ...

Breakthrough research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung tissue. They do. These cutting-edge findings by UC Riverside ...

Although potentially lifesaving, ventilators have their own inherent risks. As hospitals seek innovative solutions to treat the surge of COVID-19 patients with resources running thin, expanding ...

Cory Wharton's 7-month-old daughter Maya had open-heart surgery earlier this week after she was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect called tricuspid atresia following her birth Kimberlee Speakman ...

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 ...

While ventilators can be lifesaving for severe COVID-19 patients, new data has some doctors worried that the machines could be causing further damage Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at ...

When a hospital patient has a breathing problem, the services of a respiratory therapist are needed. Recently we had a visitor who has that position, and after all the news during COVID about people ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: the Bethanien hospital lung clinic in Moers, near his home in northwestern Germany.

COVID-19 has proven it can be lethal and traditional ventilators are a critical weapon in keeping many patients alive. But some LSU doctors are pressing the pause button on immediately turning to ...