Research from the University of Michigan Medical School finds that one in three hospitalized patients remain connected to a breathing tube after passing a spontaneous breathing trial. While a delay in ...

This type of pneumonia is one of the most common serious infections patients in intensive care units can get and increases ...

Less is also better—that is what researchers have found while conducting a tri-nation clinical trial to see if shorter courses of antibiotics are as effective as longer prescriptions of the drug to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer early ventilator-associated pneumonia cases occurred among patients with brain injury receiving ...

Lou Gehrig’s disease took away Grace Armant’s ability to speak, but the 84-year-old still has plenty to say about her insurance. UnitedHealthcare has rejected several requests from her doctors for ...

Northwell Health is first on the East Coast to deploy Lungpacer’s AeroPace neurostimulation device to help patients breathe on their own faster after being placed on a mechanical ventilation A ...

In a recent study published in JAMA, researchers investigated whether adding sigh breaths to standard care regimens of mechanically ventilated trauma patients increased ventilator-free days (VFDs).

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The computerized decision support tool was paired with esophageal manometry. A greater proportion of the ...