Most newly born infants do not require immediate cord clamping or resuscitation and can be evaluated and monitored during skin-to-skin contact with their mothers after birth. Chest compressions are ...

2 Institute of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy Non-invasive high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (NHFOV) consists of the application of a bias ...

A new study reveals striking international differences in how doctors approach the sensitive issue of tracheostomy invasive ventilation (TIV) for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Health officials warn about the spread of hantavirus — the rat-borne virus that killed actor Gene Hackman’s wife — as two ...

On the evening of the 19th, the Cheonan Hospital Center for Neonatal Intensive Treatment (Director Song Joon-hwan) affiliated with Soon Chun Hyang University will hold the 14th Neonatal Resuscitation ...

Time to successful extubation in mechanically ventilated ICU patients did not significantly differ when comparing ...

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) may perfect respiratory and cardiac performance in patients with heart failure (HF). The objective of the study to establish, through systematic review and meta-analysis ...

A recent study published in BMC Geriatrics analyzing health and long-term care insurance data from Tsukuba City has provided ...

This paper examines questions concerning elective ventilation, contextualised within English law and policy. It presents the general debate with reference both to the Exeter Protocol on elective ...

Aims: To ascertain the prevalence of premedication before intubation and the choice of drugs used in UK neonatal units in 2007 and assess changes in practice since 1998. Methods: A structured ...

Definitions of hypoxaemia, hypoxia, type 1 respiratory failure and hyperoxaemia Definition of hypercapnia and type 2 respiratory failure Definition of acidosis (respiratory acidosis and metabolic ...

There were only two reports in this series where difficulties in intubation and mask ventilation were predicted. Both were managed with an awake fibreoptic intubation technique. Weiss 18 has described ...