Transfusion of blood products was recorded as the number of 375-mL units (or volume equivalent) administered on the first day of mechanical ventilation. If ARDS developed on day 1, fluids ...

VQ Biomedical, a startup born at Duke University, has secured $5 million in funding to advance a device it says will treat ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) continues to be a tough nut to crack in critical care, taking lives despite years of research and better ventilator strategies. It is defined by acute ...

For patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS ... respiratory rescue therapies and weaning from mechanical ventilation. The clinical team wasn't blinded to ...

VQ Biomedical, spun out of Duke University, has developed a novel, minimally invasive catheter designed to deliver oxygen directly to the bloodstream. The catheter bypasses the lungs, giving ARDS ...

The Hayek Oscillator is a non-invasive high frequency ventilator which offers the first ... and chronic conditions such as BPD in babies and ARDS in adults. It can be used at Home, in the ...

Department of respiratory therapy YSAHS, in collaboration with the Indian Association of Respiratory Care (IARC), successfully hosted RESPINEXT, a comprehensive two-day south zone hands-on workshop, ...

Of 789 patients without ARDS on the first day of mechanical ventilation, 177 patients had worsening PaO 2 /FIO 2; of these, 152 patients (19%) had bilateral infiltrates and met ARDS criteria.

For patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), prolonged ... Sevoflurane reduced ventilator-free days through day 28 by a median of 2.1 compared with propofol ...