Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Medical Director, Adult Emergency Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, ...

Ventilator-induced lung injury arises when mechanical ventilation, while life-saving in acute respiratory failure, imposes abnormal stresses on lung tissue. Excessive tidal volumes or pressures can ...

Jordan, a 32-year-old man with chronic, poorly controlled asthma, has been in the emergency department for 1 hour with only partial response to aggressive bronchodilator therapy and a single ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During the first month of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands, there was broad use of lung-protective ...

A group of Children's Hospital Los Angeles researchers found that ventilation managed by a computerized decision support (CDS) tool shortened the time children with lung failure spent on ventilation ...

SAN ANTONIO – Patients requiring only short periods of ventilator management account for almost 25% of short-stay admissions to surgical-trauma intensive care units (STICU), according to research ...