Mechanical Ventilation News

• New ASA Decision Tree Tool Helps Treat Difficult Airways A new decision tree tool developed by an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) task force helps anesthesiologists manage their patients who have difficult airways.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘COVID-Proof’ Your Home Is someone at home sick with COVID-19? One simple but effective strategy for keeping the virus from spreading is to make your indoor air as much like the outdoors' as possible.
  Kaiser Health News, May 18, 2022
• Study Questions Value of Prone Positioning in Severe COVID-19 Results of the COVI-PRONE trial do not support prone positioning for awake non-intubated COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• Diabetes Doubles Risk of Death From COVID-19; East-West Divide? 'These findings are interesting because they reveal that worse outcomes due to COVID-19 in people with diabetes can be reduced in the right setting,' says an expert.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• ESOC 2022 No Benefit to Early Tracheostomy in Severe Stroke The findings don't end debate on whether an early or standard approach to tracheostomy yields better outcomes, but does give clinicians a choice.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• Study Shows Long COVID Affects Women More Than Men Also being less likely to recover were obese people and those who’d been on mechanical ventilation.
  WebMD Health News, April 26, 2022
• COVID-Surge Triage Simulations Help Clinicians Make Life and Death Decisions What happens when a region runs out of ventilators or intensive-care hospital beds during a COVID-19 surge?
  Reuters Health Information, April 25, 2022
• Doc Accused of Killing 14 Patients Found Not Guilty Was it an act of mercy or murder when a doctor gave dying patients large does of fentanyl? The verdict was just declared in the 7-week Ohio trial.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2022
• Better Ventilation Prevents COVID Spread. Are Companies Aware? The research is clear that improving indoor air quality is an essential tool in stemming the spread of covid and a host of other diseases. But companies have to be willing to invest.
  Kaiser Health News, April 19, 2022
• Texas Girl at Center of Life Support Battle Leaves Hospital "It's encouraging to see that the family and the hospital did get to work together so much that Tinslee was benefited and actually gets to go home."
  Associated Press, April 14, 2022
• Ivermectin Does Not Improve COVID-19 Outcomes Ivermectin neither reduced hospital admissions for worsening COVID-19 nor shortened the time that infected patients spent in the emergency room, according to data from a large randomized controlled trial.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2022
• Can Gram Stains Guide Antibiotics for Pneumonia in Critical Care? Use of Gram stains to select antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia offers similar clinical outcomes as guideline-based broad-spectrum treatment, study reports.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2022
• Observers Question Russian–Italian Pandemic Collaboration Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, critics have raised questions about unusual aspects of Russia's 2020 collaboration with Italy on efforts to control the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2022
• Imaging Reveals Specific Benefits of Benralizumab in Severe Asthma An additional subgroup analysis showed significant improvement in patients with five or more mucus plugs.
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2022
• FDA Advisory Panel Rejects Novel ALS Drug A US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is unconvinced by that a new drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is effective.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2022
• Pneumococcal Pneumonia Outcomes Worse Than Legionnaires Disease Bacteremic S. pneumoniae patients had higher rates of mechanical ventilation, ICU stay, and death.
  Medscape Medical News, March 30, 2022
• Awake Prone Positioning Cuts Need for Intubation in Some COVID Patients Awake prone positioning reduces the need for intubation in nonintubated COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, according to a systemic review and meta-analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, March 25, 2022
• Awake COVID-19 Patients Have Trouble With Prone Positioning When awake COVID-19 patients are having trouble breathing, doctors may advise them to lie face-down to help their lungs to expand and take in more oxygen, but that's easier said than done, a new study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, March 24, 2022
• 'Vast Majority' of COVID Patients Wake Up After Ventilation The 'vast majority' of COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation eventually wake up, a key finding that should be considered in making decisions about life-sustaining therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, March 18, 2022
• Dealing With Life-Threatening Asthma Attacks If a severe asthma exacerbation does not resolve relatively quickly, it's time to look for other clues behind a patient's respiratory distress.
  Medscape Medical News, March 17, 2022