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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of the ICU Liberation Bundle was linked to shorter ICU stays, less time on ventilation and fewer patients in ...
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 ...
The main goal of current ventilatory strategies in acute respiratory failure is to keep spontaneous breathing whenever ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Each additional minute patients spent boarded in the ED led to a 0.026% increase in ICU length of stay and a 0.023% increase in ventilator days, according to a study presented at ...
Covid-19 intensive care units are grappling with a shortage of ventilators and staff trained to monitor them. A groundbreaking innovation by Israeli startup Yehonatan Medical addresses both these ...
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 ...
Valleywise ICU nurse Morgan Prescott has been taking care of COVID-19 patients since February, and has since seen only one or two patients successfully get off of ventilators. "You deal with death ...
In a recent study from UW Medicine of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) in the early days of the pandemic in the Puget Sound area, researchers found only half of the patients admitted to the ...
Nearly two months after Jim Kolovos was put on a ventilator, his wife and doctors tried to help him regain consciousness so they could ask him a question: Was he ready to give up, or did he want to ...
Music therapy could significantly reduce heart rate, blood pressure and patient–ventilator asynchronies for patients admitted ...