Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Medical Director, Adult Emergency Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, ...

Ventilator-induced lung injury arises when mechanical ventilation, while life-saving in acute respiratory failure, imposes abnormal stresses on lung tissue. Excessive tidal volumes or pressures can ...

SAN ANTONIO – Patients requiring only short periods of ventilator management account for almost 25% of short-stay admissions to surgical-trauma intensive care units (STICU), according to research ...

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 ...

Jordan, a 32-year-old man with chronic, poorly controlled asthma, has been in the emergency department for 1 hour with only partial response to aggressive bronchodilator therapy and a single ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During the first month of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands, there was broad use of lung-protective ...