Once all of the pre-discharge criteria are met, the process of training the patient and caregivers on the home care equipment and techniques related to treating the patient on the ventilator can begin ...

Ventilator information is transmitted to respiratory therapy supervisors, who can direct respiratory therapists to care for ventilated patients. Yale New Haven Health has launched an initiative to ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A coronavirus patient in the Bronx in New York City died last month while being cared for by medical residents who didn't know how to work her ...

Our ICU started using an oral care protocol for patients receiving mechanical ventilation to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) last year. However, one of our physicians said that oral care ...

Reduction in the number of days seriously ill coronavirus patients are on mechanical ventilation can reduce respiratory complications. Dexamethasone treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...

A patient being treated for COVID at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids will remain on a ventilator for at least another month after an Anoka County district judge issued a restraining order preventing the ...

A study measuring results of daily scheduled ventilator rounds via a tele-ICU platform documented enhanced patient outcomes, including a significant reduction in the duration of time that patients ...

Physicians working in the intensive care unit (ICU) frequently face an unsettling dilemma: how to sedate patients deeply enough so they're unaware of pain, but not so deeply that they experience ...

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 ...

With much-needed equipment comes demands to put it all to use. As states sound the alarm over a lack of ventilators to help hospitalized novel coronavirus patients -- including a plea for 30,000 ...