Q. Do you consider the use of mechanical ventilation in ALS patients an extraordinary or disproportionate means to prolong life? Would the discontinuation of mechanical ventilation in ALS patients be ...

The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of the principles of ventilation, the safety precautions to be taken when ventilating a structure and how to use the various types of ventilation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inspired by the lack of consistency in mechanical ventilation training, doctors at Cleveland Clinic developed a ...

Based on: Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation, Second edition. Edited by Martin J. Tobin. 1442 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2006. $189.95., 978-0-07-144767-6 Twelve years ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Over 48 hours, eight patients arrived at the COVID-19 unit in Neustadt, Germany — four from an ...

Patients on mechanical ventilation for severe COVID-19 pneumonia had similar mortality rates to patients with other forms of severe pneumonia, but those with COVID tended to be kept on ventilation ...

Our discussion below assumes that physicians have addressed metabolic, inflammatory, and infectious conditions that may be present and have corrected them to the extent possible. As soon as the ...

‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.’ Neonatal ventilators can be classified as either devices that deliver tidal ventilation, usually referred to as conventional mechanical ...

Study finds no statistically significant duration in the use of mechanical ventilation for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who took acetazolamide, but there was a clinically ...