Oct 27, 2022

Preterm newborns are especially vulnerable to lung damage in the hours and days after birth. One of the known causes of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in premature newborns is lung injury sustained ...

Oct 27, 2022

Any intensive care unit (ICU) ventilator will have the option to use automatic tube compensation (ATC) to counteract the pressure reduction in resistance caused by the endotracheal tube. The purpose o...

Oct 27, 2022

Adverse events (AE) have been linked to unintended extubation (UE). Those preterm children with at least one UE were compared to those with none, clinically speaking. A matched cohort research compare...

Oct 27, 2022

There is some disagreement over when to perform intubation in the COVID-19 study. At the moment of intubation, researchers aimed to calculate the ROX (Respiratory rate-OXygenation) index, which is cal...

Oct 27, 2022

Patients at risk of experiencing respiratory failure can be identified through post-extubation surveillance. The purpose of this study was to compare the re-intubation rate before and after an automat...

Oct 27, 2022

The persistent lung alterations caused by the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) due to severe disease are already common knowledge. This research aimed to identify potential contributors to intersti...

Oct 17, 2022

The goal of this research was to determine whether or not enrollment, retention, or success on the National Board for Respiratory Care credentialing examinations were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...

Oct 17, 2022

In recent years, there has been a heightened focus on the need to train a new generation of respiratory therapy (RT) professionals. Retirement quits, and falling enrollment in approved RT programs acr...

Oct 17, 2022

Burnout is common in the healthcare industry and has negative consequences for patients, businesses, and individuals. Anxiety, sadness, excessive use of alcohol or drugs, cardiovascular issues, lost t...

Oct 14, 2022

Improvements in patient care directly result from the framework provided by Interprofessional Education (IPE). Competencies in communication, ethics, roles and duties, and teamwork were set in 2010 by...

Oct 14, 2022

To a considerable extent, the success of mechanically assisted coughing with insufflation-exsufflation (MI-E) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is determined by the severity of bulbar dysfunction...

Oct 11, 2022

Fibrinogen concentrations rise rapidly during severe bleeding caused by trauma before any other coagulation proteins. Plasma samples from the Fibrinogen Early in Severe Trauma studY (FEISTY; NCT027450...

Oct 11, 2022

Up to 70% of ICU patients will experience some form of organ malfunction or failure throughout their stay. Inadequate organ function must be restored for there to be any hope of a positive outcome, wh...

Oct 11, 2022

Intensive care units (ICU) face a significant challenge in facilitating patient-caregiver and family-caregiver communication. As a result of these fluctuations, standard comprehension tests are not fe...

Oct 11, 2022

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can cause intrathoracic airway closure and a drop in lung volume below the functional residual capacity. But excessive insufflation may cause chest distension and p...

Oct 11, 2022

The current best practices in malnutrition screening and assessment, estimation of energy needs for patients with obesity, the risks and management of sarcopenic obesity, the value of tailored nutriti...

Oct 11, 2022

This research aimed to examine the effectiveness and safety of remimazolam besylate and propofol for keeping patients on long-term mechanical breathing sedated at a moderate level. Adults who required...

Oct 07, 2022

After cardiothoracic surgery, it might be difficult to make a clinical diagnosis of ICU-acquired pneumonia. Failing to meet the Johanson criteria (a chest x-ray infiltrate, purulent tracheal secretion...

Oct 07, 2022

When the duration between inspirations is too short for the patient to exhale to their functional residual capacity, a condition known as intrinsic PEEP arises. Intrinsic PEEP can arise from a variety...

Oct 07, 2022

Oxygen levels in patients are typically monitored by pulse oximetry. However, there has been little research done on why people with darker skin pigmentation are more likely to have measurement inaccu...