Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Across several subgroups, preoxygenation with noninvasive ventilation lowered hypoxemia more than an oxygen mask ...

During the Covid-19 crisis, the medical term “intubation” entered common parlance. Severe Covid patients, unable to breathe on their own, sometimes needed to have a tube inserted into their lungs ...

Concerns about safety, competing priorities and uncooperative patients were among the barriers identified by critical care nurses for not mobilizing intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation ...

OPELIKA, Ala. (WSFA) - Good news out of the East Alabama Medical Center! EAMC posted on Facebook that 48-year-old Tony Thornton became the first COVID-19 patient at the hospital to recover well enough ...

New study finds mobility practices nonexistent for ICU patients deemed ready to begin out-of-bed activities. Critical care nurses frequently did not mobilize intubated patients receiving mechanical ...

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Shortly after testing positive for the coronavirus, Cleveland resident Nic Brown started to lose lung function and was intubated for seven days. There are more than 390,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 ...

The authors argue that physicians need a new playbook for when to use ventilators for Covid-19 patients — a message consistent with new treatment guidelines issued Tuesday by the National Institutes ...

Ventilators are the go-to way physicians treat serious cases of COVID-19, but some patients at Wellington Regional Medical Center in Florida started refusing breathing tubes a couple of weeks ago.

Last month Spanish authorities put out an urgent call for donations of snorkeling masks to build improvised devices to help COVID-19 patients breathe. Shortages of ventilators, which push air into ...

"Because he was intubated he couldn't thank them vocally, this was the only way he could think of to thank them for what they were doing," his wife said. Music is often called the universal language, ...