Rare incidents where ventilator or heavily sedated patients react during emergencies are rooted in well-documented survival ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ventilators may unintentionally harm patients; research is lacking in children. A new study will test how well ...

Prolonged mechanical ventilation is a patient safety issue. According to one epidemiological study, approximately 310 people per 100,000 adults in the United States require invasive mechanical ...

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...

Patients on mechanical ventilation for severe COVID-19 pneumonia had similar mortality rates to patients with other forms of severe pneumonia, but those with COVID tended to be kept on ventilation ...

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --A judge in Anoka County has ordered Mercy Hospital to keep a patient battling COVID-19 on a ventilator, the latest development in an ongoing legal battle with the man's family.

BOSTON -- Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris were common among patients receiving mechanical ventilation in both acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities, particularly the latter, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A patient who has been battling COVID-19 on a ventilator for months at a Minnesota hospital has been moved to a hospital in Texas amid an ongoing legal battle between the family ...

The order prohibited Mercy Hospital from turning off ventilation support. A Minnesota man with COVID who had been fighting for his life for months was transferred to a new hospital days after a judge ...