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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

Lydia Hartung and Hope Anne Elias, both third-year dental students at East Carolina University, have put together an oral health care instructional video for caretakers and health care providers of ...

They confront death daily, but the young doctors rarely pondered their own mortality until the coronavirus pandemic, when clinicians like them started dying. During an overnight lull last month, five ...

“Because this disease is so new and because there are so many unanswered questions about COVID-19, we currently do not have reliable tools to predict how long it will take any individual patient to ...

Nihon Kohden, a global leader in life-support solutions backed by more than seven decades of clinical expertise, are presenting two expert-led sessions at the AARC 2025 International Congress, taking ...

Everyone who 'needs' a ventilator will not get one. When there are two patients and one ventilator, the one with the greatest survival chance should get the ventilator first. Dr. John La Puma and 16 ...

(TNS) - In the coming weeks, difficult decisions about who will live and who will die in Alabama may hinge on a little-discussed document outlining the state’s suggested “criteria for mechanical ...

Thinking about the choices we could have to make as we treat patients with the coronavirus breaks my heart. By Daniela J. Lamas Dr. Lamas is a critical care doctor. BOSTON — I was not sure what to say ...

A coronavirus patient in the Bronx in New York City died last month while being cared for by medical residents who didn't know how to work her ventilator. The incident at Montefiore Medical Center was ...