By now you have heard about the huge demand for ventilators to help patients infected with COVID-19. But why are they needed and how are they used? Here's why intubation is needed to treat ...

There is a lack of evidence on how sedatives used during tracheal intubation impact patient survival and likelihood for PTSD symptoms, and researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center plan ...

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Intubation boxes are supposed to prevent the spread of aerosolized coronavirus particles during intubation. But they haven't been properly tested.

For the first time, unrecognized esophageal intubation is the subject of a new guideline aimed at reducing the incidence of mistaken intubation and associated morbidity and mortality.

In the busy ICUs of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, intubations are more than triple the normal number -- and staffers celebrate when patients are well enough for the tubes to come out.

By now you have heard about the huge demand for ventilators to help patients infected with COVID-19. But why are they needed and how are they used? Here's why intubation is needed to treat ...