Intensive care experts have implored the government to train medical officers and nurses ;on how to use high-flow oxygen therapy as opposed to the use of mechanical ventilators in saving patients with ...

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Inclusion criteria: patient requiring tracheostomy; 16-years or older; diagnosis of post-intubation benign laryngeal and/or tracheal stenosis; no previous history of airway reconstruction surgery.

Mechanical ventilation can be a life-saving intervention, but its implementation requires a multidisciplinary approach, with an understanding of its indications and contraindications due to the ...

Setting Sole tertiary neonatal unit in West Australia. Main outcome measures The primary outcomes were requirement for intubation and duration of mechanical ventilation at 72 hours. Data analysis ...

Results Rates of BPD, delivery room intubation and mechanical ventilation for >24 h differed significantly between hospitals. Centres with high delivery room intubation rates had higher ventilation ...

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Mechanical surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) was associated with lower all-cause mortality in patients ≤60 years old compared with bioprosthetic AVR, according to a study on the longitudinal ...

It’s called a “positive pressure ventilator.” That’s the main kind of ventilation that doctors use today. But there’s also a type that’s not used as often, called a negative pressure ...

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