An man being kept alive by a ventilator at a hospital in Minnesota following a severe case of COVID-19 was moved to a care facility in Texas after a judge issued a restraining order barring the ...

Whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) reduces mortality among patients undergoing mechanical ...

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 ...

Results from a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control showed ventilator-associated pneumonia was the most frequent adverse event related to deaths in the ICU at a university ...

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 ...

EMPORIA, Kans. (KSNW) — Hospitals across Kansas are feeling the strain not just on staffing but on supplies as well. One hospital, in particular, ran out of ventilators on Friday as the state ...

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 ...

According to court documents, Mercy intended to turn off her husband’s ventilator at noon on Jan. 13. Anne, who felt the hospital was not exploring other treatment options beyond the protocols, was ...

It is safe to treat stable, chronic ventilator-dependent patients in their homes. [5] Home care is less costly than acute care. Guber and colleagues reported that home mechanical ventilation was as ...