Increased use of ventilation and air cleaners, designed to mitigate the spread of viral infections in hospitals, is likely to have unpredictable effects and may cause viral particles to move around ...

Advanced respiratory support is common in ICU patients with severe viral infections; however, additional infections do not substantially affect 30-day mortality outcomes.

A study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, examined the use of an automated system to detect ventilator-associated events in real time. Researchers conducted a retrospective ...

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) is the most prevalent healthcare-associated infection, with 65% of HAPs occurring in non-ventilated patients as non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP).1 ...

Ventilators can assist with lung function for those with severe respiratory infections, and it's often necessary in the ICU.

It is safe to treat stable, chronic ventilator-dependent patients in their homes. [5] Home care is less costly than acute care. Guber and colleagues reported that home mechanical ventilation was as ...

Pope Francis is without fever and no longer relying on mechanical ventilation during his ongoing hospitalization for double pneumonia, the Vatican said on Sunday evening. "The clinical conditions of ...