Using a lung and diaphragm protective ventilation strategy guided by a computerized decision support tool during the acute phase of ventilation shortened the duration of weaning, a pediatric phase II ...

A new study sheds light on ventilator-induced lung injury, a complication that gained increased attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a surge in patients requiring mechanical ...

Objectives: The aim of this survey was to determine North American and European pediatric intensivists' knowledge and stated practice in the management of children with acute respiratory distress ...

A new study from Tulane University suggests that repeated collapse and reopening of tiny alveoli-air sacs in the lungs essential for breathing-during mechanical ventilation may cause microscopic ...

In Germany, about ten per cent of all children are born before the 37th week of pregnancy and are thus considered premature. Many of these premature babies require help with breathing due to their ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two ...

A group of Children's Hospital Los Angeles researchers found that ventilation managed by a computerized decision support (CDS) tool shortened the time children with lung failure spent on ventilation ...

The approval was based on data from 2 clinical trials that compared Xenoview MRI to xenon Xe 133 scintigraphy in adults with pulmonary disorders. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

Mechanical ventilation, the use of a machine to help a person breathe, was not something many people thought about all that often—until the COVID pandemic struck. Stories of patients being put on ...