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 ...

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An AI tool NutriSightT analyzes routine ICU data to flag underfed patients in real time, enabling more personalized nutrition ...

As skilled nursing facilities that provide care for ventilator-dependent patients across Pennsylvania closed their doors due to lack of state funding over roughly the past two years, Transitions ...

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 ...

HERSHEY, PA-Physicians and nurses at Penn State Children's Hospital have developed a process that significantly limits accidental dislodging of the breathing tubes of critically-ill children on ...

A patient being treated for COVID at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids will remain on a ventilator for at least another month after an Anoka County district judge issued a restraining order preventing the ...

Representatives from over 30 states told us they haven’t had or are not aware of any COVID-19 patients in their state needing a ventilator and not getting one. Many states are reporting excess ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. No, it’s not the new antiviral therapy for Covid-19. It’s not a ...