ALLMedicine™ Mechanical Ventilation Center

Jul 26th, 2021 - Wide practice variation exists in the management of gastroschisis. Routine endotracheal intubation for bedside closure may lead to longer duration of mechanical ventilation. The Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgery Network gastroschisis datas...

Jul 26th, 2021 - Viral bronchiolitis is a major cause of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. Insight in the trends of bronchiolitis-associated PICU admissions is limited, but imperative for future PICU resource and capacity planning. We retrospectively...

Jul 26th, 2021 - We sought to determine the incidence of community-onset and hospital-acquired co-infection in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and evaluate associated predictors and outcomes. Multicenter retrospective cohort study of patients hospitalized for ...

Jul 25th, 2021 - To determine the association of overnight extubation (OE) with extubation success. Retrospective cohort study in three NICUs from 2016 to 2020. Infants without congenital anomalies, less than 1500 grams at birth, who were ventilated and received a...

Jul 24th, 2021 - Peritonitis, as a major consequence of hollow visceral perforation, anastomotic disruption, ischemic necrosis, or other injuries of the gastrointestinal tract, often drives acute care in the emergency department, operating room, and the ICU. Chron...

Jun 8th, 2021 - The imbalance between the prevalence of patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) and acute-on-chronic respiratory failure and the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds requires new solutions. The increasing use of non-invasive respiratory ...

Apr 19th, 2021 - To describe updates to pragmatic recommendations that were published during the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surge, including the current thinking about whether pregnancy worsens the severity of COVID-19. Although a majority of pregna...

Dec 10th, 2020 - Mechanical ventilation (MV) is an essential part of modern intensive care medicine. MV is performed in patients with severe respiratory failure caused by respiratory muscle insufficiency and/or lung parenchymal disease; that is, when other treatme...

Dec 10th, 2020 - Long-term mechanical ventilation is a well-established treatment for chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure (CHRF). It is aimed at improving CHRF-related symptoms, health-related quality of life, survival, and decreasing hospital admissions. In S...

Jul 31st, 2020 - What is the role of remdesivir in the treatment of severe covid-19? This guideline was triggered by the ACTT-1 trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine on 22 May 2020. Remdesivir has received worldwide attention as a potentially effe...

May 6th, 2020 - Unstable chest injuries are common in poly trauma patients. They can lead to severe pulmonary restriction, loss of lung volume, difficulty with ventilation and can render the patient to require intubation and mechanical ventilation. Traditionally ...

May 4th, 2020 - Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been widely used in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). But how to choose mechanical ventilation strategy is still not clear for severe ARDS patients supported by ECMO. Ou...

Apr 29th, 2020 - Preterm infants who remain intubated or on nasal mechanical ventilation (IMV) at 14 days postnatal age, meet blood gas criteria, have transcutaneous carbondioxide (TcCO2) monitoring with TcCO2 values that trend and correlate appropriately with PaC...

Apr 27th, 2020 - This study will compare two different modes of mechanical ventilation: standard lung protective controlled mandatory ventilation and Adaptive Support Ventilation. The investigators will enroll adult patients with ARDS who are mechanically ventilat...

Apr 26th, 2020 - Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) as a result of injuries resulting from penetrating or non-penetrating trauma who are intubated and receiving invasive mechanical ventilation will be randomized to either usual care or usual care with the add...

Jul 7th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - The duration of respiratory support for preterm infants in the U.S. has increased in recent years as the reliance on mechanical ventilation has declined and use of noninvasive ventilation has become more common, a new study sugg...

Jul 6th, 2021 - ZURICH (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Tuesday recommended using arthritis drugs Actemra from Roche and Kevzara from Sanofi with corticosteroids for COVID-19 patients after data from some 11,000 patients showed they cut the risk of de...

Jun 24th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using monoclonal-antibody therapies for COVID-19 appears safe and effective at preventing severe disease in recipients of solid-organ transplants, according to a new retrospective study. "Monoclonal antibody treatment h...

Jun 24th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the arthritis drug tocilizumab (Actemra) for adults and ...

Jun 14th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Children with diabetes, obesity and cardiac and circulatory congenital anomalies were more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and to be severely ill during while hospitalized, a new study finds. The Centers for Disease Cont...