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 a recent study published in JAMA, researchers investigated whether adding sigh breaths to standard care regimens of mechanically ventilated trauma patients increased ventilator-free days (VFDs).

Mechanical ventilation is the most common intervention for patients admitted to ICUs to allow them to breathe sufficiently on their own. However, prolonged mechanical ventilation can lead to a host of ...

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who ...