Objective: To compare the overall performance of specially trained neonatal nurses acting autonomously, unsupervised, and without a protocol with specialist registrars when weaning neonates from ...

Concerns about safety, competing priorities and uncooperative patients were among the barriers identified by critical care nurses for not mobilizing intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation ...

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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 ...

LIVINGSTON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ventilator dependent respiratory patients in three Skilled Nursing Facilities in the Western U.S. now have a better chance of going home earlier, thanks to the ...

Q. Do you consider the use of mechanical ventilation in ALS patients an extraordinary or disproportionate means to prolong life? Would the discontinuation of mechanical ventilation in ALS patients be ...

A well-designed single center randomized controlled study of prophylactic NIV in hypoxemic immunocompromized patients (including 30 hematology patients) demonstrated highly significant benefit from ...

Geoff Hanmer is currently receiving funding from the Office of the Building Commissioner in NSW and has received funding in the past from the BACC NSW. Neither of these funding sources relate to the ...

We have demonstrated a significant reduction in the duration of weaning neonates from mechanical ventilation by 30.25 hrs when nurses compared with specialist registrars conducted the process. There ...