In critically ill patients who are receiving mechanical ventilation, the factors associated with physicians' decisions to withdraw ventilation in anticipation of death are unclear. The objective of ...

Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture much-needed ventilators to address a global lack of supply. One New York hospital has reportedly attempted treating two patients per ...

Put less nurses on duty in your intensive care unit, and patients on respirators are more likely to get pneumonia. That's the conclusion drawn by a study published this week in the journal Critical ...

Bracing for a surge of Covid-19 patients and facing shortages of the resources necessary to keep the sickest patients alive, hospitals and governments are grappling with the reality of having to ...

Early in my career as an ICU nurse, a chatty resident and I were working together at the bedside of a profoundly ill patient. The resident asked me how I liked my job. Looking at the young man in ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation is becoming an essential component of care for critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, particularly those at high ...

While many of us would know of ventilators as an artificial breathing device that helps a person in breathing when one would struggle with his natural breathing, the advent of Covid-19 has certainly ...

Federal Minister for Science and Technology Senator Shibli Faraz was informed on Tuesday that out of an initial 57 ventilator designs, only 16 could meet the requirements of intensive care unit (ICU) ...

What you need to know: Experts say the Auditor General’s report highlights a classic problem in health systems: investing heavily in equipment without ensuring the ecosystem needed to use it.