During the weaning of a patient from mechanical ventilation, what is the maximum level of pressure support that can be reasonably set? And how do you determine pressure support levels? Please provide ...

Introduction: Intratracheal administration of surfactant is a very common procedure, however it is not well standarised. Objectives: Complications found during surfactant therapy in ...

Episodes of hypotension and its interventions could also affect neurodevelopmental outcomes. 4, 5 There were fewer hypotensive episodes seen in the VGPSV group; this was attributed to stable tidal ...

PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Scopus were searched from inception until September 2013 using the following keywords in various combinations: noninvasive ventilation, ...

Out-of-hospital noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (PPV) in patients with severe respiratory distress significantly reduced rates of inhospital mortality and need for invasive ventilation, ...

Our discussion below assumes that physicians have addressed metabolic, inflammatory, and infectious conditions that may be present and have corrected them to the extent possible. As soon as the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel negative-pressure ventilator supported spontaneous ventilation in conscious, healthy adults and allowed ...

Three main methods of noninvasive support are used in the acute care setting: a high flow of gas delivered through a large-bore nonocclusive nasal cannula (i.e., high-flow nasal cannula), continuous ...

A seven-year international, multi-centre clinical trial led by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) and St. Michael's Hospital, a site of Unity Health Toronto, has found that a ...