ALLMedicine™ Tracheostomy Center

Jan 28th, 2023 - The number of children on prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) has increased markedly, but little is known about the situation in mainland China. We carried out a multicenter retrospective investigation t...

Jan 28th, 2023 - To define effective communication and identify its key elements specific to critically ill patients with an artificial airway. A modified Consensus Development Panel methodology. International video-conferences. Definition of effective communicati...

Jan 27th, 2023 - We sought to investigate how race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status relate to tracheostomy insertion and post-tracheostomy mortality among infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The Vizient Clinical Database/Resource Manager was queried to id...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Polyhydramnios may develop when the fetus cannot swallow amniotic fluid or the amount of fetal urine increases. Occasionally, unpredictable fetal abnormalities can be diagnosed postnatally. Bilateral vocal cord paralysis in the fetus may cause pol...

Jan 24th, 2023 - Immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) is a common adverse event of CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy. Other neurological adverse events, however, have not methodically been described and studied....

Sep 24th, 2020 - Management of patients with a tracheostomy tube includes many components of care provided by clinicians from various health care disciplines. In recent years, clinicians worldwide have demonstrated a renewed interest in the management of patients ...

Jun 9th, 2020 - The role of tracheostomy during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains unknown. The goal of this consensus statement is to examine the current evidence for performing tracheostomy in patients with respiratory failure from COVID-1...

Dec 29th, 2016 - Rib fractures are identified in 10% of all injury victims and are associated with significant morbidity (33%) and mortality (12%). Significant progress has been made in the management of rib fractures over the past few decades, including operative...

Mar 25th, 2008 - Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in ventilated critically ill patients. To develop evidence-based guidelines for the prevention of VAP. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Database of Sys...

Jan 12th, 2023 - Tracheal stenosis (TS) is a serious complication that occurs in approximately 6-22% of patients due to prolonged endotracheal intubation. Cuff hyperinflation of the endotracheal tube, use of large tubes, advanced age, female gender, smoking, obesi...

Jan 11th, 2023 - We will include citizens referred for outpatient testing for COVID-19 who will be offered to participante in the study on a volunteer basis. Participants are all volunteers, who are attending the test facilities to obtain a PCR test. Participants ...

Jan 10th, 2023 - Rationale Many patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) need hospital admission for oxygen supplementation. A substantial number of patients need intensive care unit (ICU) admission for escalation of care. ICU doctors and nurses are struggling...

Dec 28th, 2022 - This is an prospective observational study designed to collect data on the IPI in mechanically ventilated pediatric patients undergoing the weaning process and extubation using the FDA approved Capnostream 20® bedside monitor (CS20) (Covidien Inc....

Dec 27th, 2022 - A retrospective cohort study enrolled adult traumatic CSCI patients who underwent mechanical ventilation and admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Zhongda hospital form June 2014 to July 2018. The following inclusion criteria were used: age...

Dec 9th, 2022 - NASHVILLE, Tennessee ― New research shows stark racial and ethnic discrepancies in healthcare outcomes for patients with status epilepticus (SE). Investigators found that among Black patients with SE, the hospitalization rate was twice that of the...

Nov 30th, 2022 - “The right drug at the right time with the right dose for the right bug for the right duration. ” That, said professor Kristina Crothers, MD, is the general guidance for optimizing antibiotic use (while awaiting an infectious disease consult).

Nov 1st, 2022 - (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration said on Monday there was a shortage of tracheostomy tubes, a surgical device that helps patients to breathe, including those manufactured by ICU Medical. The agency said the shortage was due to difficul...

Oct 26th, 2022 - Getting patients moving as much as possible while on mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU) didn't improve their chances of survival or getting home sooner, the TEAM trial showed. An early strategy of sedation minimization and dai...

Oct 18th, 2022 - The number of adults hospitalized with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in the United States increased by 50% from 2013 to 2019, based on data from the National Inpatient Sample. Health care–associated infections are a significant burden, and.