This article, the second in a two-part series, outlines the importance of providing high-quality nursing care and careful monitoring when patients are discontinued from artificial mechanical ...

The number of nursing home residents with advanced dementia who get hooked up to breathing machines has roughly doubled in recent years even though this doesn't appear to help them live longer, a U.S.

The care of patients who are receiving artificial mechanical ventilation is complex and requires skill and experience. This two-part series outlines some of the important aspects of one specific part ...

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 ...

The chief reason that patients are admitted to an intensive care unit is to receive ventilatory support. In this article, I update the basic principles of mechanical ventilation, which I reviewed in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inspired by the lack of consistency in mechanical ventilation training, doctors at Cleveland Clinic developed a ...

To evaluate the differences in performance conservatively, we compared the 90% lower bound of the VentAI performance return with the 90% upper bound of the clinicians (Fig. 2), demonstrating the ...