Respiratory support of neonates during and following laser surgery for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is commonly accomplished using endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. However, most ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with delayed vs. early intubation had worse hospital mortality, ICU mortality and death within 90 days.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Across several subgroups, preoxygenation with noninvasive ventilation lowered hypoxemia more than an oxygen mask ...

Noninvasive ventilation reduces the need for intubation compared to standard medical care in adults with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (Lancet. 2000;355:1931-1935; ...

In current clinical care, most critically ill adults undergoing emergency tracheal intubation receive preoxygenation through an oxygen mask. Administering supplemental oxygen to patients prior to the ...

In a randomized trial of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), bag-mask ventilation (BMV) was associated with the same rate of 28-day functional survival as seen with endotracheal ...

Aug. 28 (UPI) --Results from the recent CAAM trial reveal that bag-mask ventilation fails to improve on endotracheal intubation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, researchers who conducted ...

SAN DIEGO — Critically ill adults who underwent tracheal intubation with bag-mask ventilation had higher oxygen saturations than those who received no ventilation, and were less likely to experience ...

Thousands of Americans die each year during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube. Now a Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) study in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

Noninvasive ventilation (continuous positive airway pressure [CPAP] or noninvasive intermittent positive-pressure ventilation [NIPPV]) appears to be of benefit in the immediate treatment of patients ...