Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people per 100,000 adults in the United States require invasive mechanical ...

Patient-ventilator asynchrony refers to the mismatch between the respiratory demands of a patient and the cycling and support provided by a mechanical ventilator. This phenomenon encompasses a range ...

Real-time monitoring of patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA) and respiratory parameters is important in patients with severe pneumonia. In a recent ...

Patients experiencing respiratory failure need help fast. One of the most common therapies involves use of positive pressure via a breathing tube and ventilator to push air into the lungs. “The ...

Mechanical ventilation, the use of a machine to help a person breathe, was not something many people thought about all that often—until the COVID pandemic struck. Stories of patients being put on ...

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It is safe to treat stable, chronic ventilator-dependent patients in their homes. [5] Home care is less costly than acute care. Guber and colleagues reported that home mechanical ventilation was as ...

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