Oral care decreased both the number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the length of stay, as well as the amount of time of mechanical ventilation. Patients on mechanical ventilation who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From the start of rehabilitation, it took a median of 1 day for patients given a mobile patient lift to stand vs ...

A new, recently licensed medical device developed by UB researchers would introduce into intensive-care settings the powerful and effective method of anesthetizing patients that works so well in the ...

More active efforts to reduce patients' time on a ventilator in an ICU can both spare their suffering and free up intensive care resources, a thesis at the University of Gothenburg shows. Mechanical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Alcohol misuse vs. no misuse increased the odds for several poor outcomes. Higher odds for mechanical ...

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC have found a new mechanism explaining diaphragm weakness that arises during mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). The diaphragm is the most important ...

Few people have thought about providing an exercise workout in the intensive care unit, especially for patients on ventilators - even those who are comatose - but a researcher from Frances Payne ...

As many as 4 in 5 ICU patients on mechanical ventilation develop delirium, or sudden confusion, panic, upset and anger. But ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen fast in the past two weeks after a long, steady increase and the number of critically ill COVID patients has spiked even more ...

Reduction in the number of days seriously ill coronavirus patients are on mechanical ventilation can reduce respiratory complications. Dexamethasone treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...