Mechanical Ventilation News

• Infections Down in Acute Care Hospitals Prevention strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections are having an effect, according to a new report on national- and state-level incidence.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023
• ARDS: Prone Positioning Doesn't Reduce Time to ECMO Weaning Adults with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome who underwent venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation had similar times to weaning with prone and supine positions.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2023
• France's First Larynx Transplant The patient who received the first larynx transplant to be performed in France is recovering well and beginning to regain the use of her voice.
  Medscape Medical News, December 05, 2023
• AHA 2023 In MI With Anemia, Results May Favor Liberal Transfusion Although the primary outcome was not statistically different between a liberal and more restrictive transfusion strategy, secondary results suggest some advantages for the liberal approach.
  Medscape Medical News, November 11, 2023
• Double Lung Transplant Uses Double D Breast Implants A first-of-its-kind surgical procedure used breast implants to hold the patient's heart in place before new lungs arrived. Vaping, smoking, and lung infections led to an urgent need for double lung transplant.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2023
• Philips Shares Drop as New Order Decline Clouds Rosier Outlook Shares of Dutch health technology company Philips dropped 4% on Monday as strong quarterly earnings and an upgraded outlook for 2023 could not offset worries about a continuing fall in new orders.
  Reuters Health Information, October 23, 2023
• How Massive Health Databases Are Revolutionizing Clinical Care Vast medical databases have connected dots where smaller randomized trials could not. But the United States has a long way to go.
  Medscape Medical News, October 19, 2023
• CHEST 2023 'Grow, Connect, and Be Inspired' at CHEST 2023 The annual meeting will feature the latest in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, plus acrobatic fire dancers and a luau feast.
  Medscape Medical News, October 03, 2023
• Pneumonia, Not Just Inflammation, May Cause Severe COVID New research from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, however, is pointing to bacterial pneumonia as the cause of many severe COVID deaths.
  WebMD Health News, September 25, 2023
• ESC 2023 SGLT2 Inhibitors: No Benefit in Hospitalized COVID-19 However, an important take-home message from this new meta-analysis is that these widely used medications appeared to be safe even in acutely ill hospitalized patients, the researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, September 13, 2023
• Philips Settles One Category of US Claims Over Respirator Recall Philips said on Thursday it has reached a settlement to resolve one category of legal claims against it following a major recall of its sleep apnea and respiratory devices.
  Reuters Health Information, September 07, 2023
• A Patient Leaves You Money in Their Will: Can You Accept It? Some patients are so grateful to their physicians that they give them gifts, and on occasion, even name the physician in their will. But this could potentially lead to problems.
  Medscape Medical News, September 06, 2023
• FDA Identifies Respiratory Devices Recall as Most Serious The FDA on Monday classified the recall of Philips' respiratory machines as its most serious type, as their use could cause serious injuries or death.
  Reuters Health Information, August 14, 2023
• What Impact Do Changes to a Newborn's Microbiota Have? Dysbiosis of the microbiota affects short-term pathogenesis and may play a role in long-term pathology, too, said an infectious disease pediatrician.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2023
• No Gain From P-Selectin-Blocking Agent in Hospitalized COVID Treatment with crizanlizumab didn't improve survival or days free of cardiopulmonary support in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in a randomized study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2023
• Finding the Optimal Fluid Strategies for Sepsis A new review provides insights into intravenous fluid therapy for sepsis, including how much to give at each stage of treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, June 30, 2023
• Sudden Bedtime Aneurysm Turns MD Couple Into Doctor–Patient What starts as a home medical emergency between married doctors is the beginning of a story of heroic measures and wanting to break all the rules to save a loved one.
  Medscape Medical News, June 21, 2023
• Hold Ozempic Before Surgery to Optimize Patient Safety? The surging popularity of semaglutide for weight loss reveals some unanswered questions about the safety of this and other similar agents during elective surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, June 19, 2023
• Upping CO2 Does Not Benefit OHCA Patients: TAME Maintaining hypercapnia for the first 24 hours in comatose patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest did not improve outcomes in a large, randomized trial.
  Medscape Medical News, June 19, 2023
• Could Vitamin D Supplementation Help in Long COVID? If confirmed in large randomized clinical trials, vitamin D supplementation could be a strategy to reduce the burden of long COVID, say researchers, as suggested by a new retrospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2023
• Forgotten but Not Gone: EVALI Epidemic Continues Patients are still suffering from the effects of lung damage linked to vaping, and have been largely ignored by researchers and the US government.
  Medscape Medical News, April 17, 2023
• Philips Clarifies Respiratory Device Replacement Numbers After New FDA Rebuke Philips clarified on Friday that 2.2 million devices it has repaired or replaced in a major recall of respiratory devices are actually in the hands of patients in the United States.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2023
• FDA Identifies Recall of Philips' Respiratory Devices as Most Serious The FDA on Friday classified the recall of Philips' respiratory machines as its most serious type, as their use could cause serious injuries or death.
  Reuters Health Information, April 07, 2023
• Only 1 in 4 Feel Fully Recovered Following COVID-19 Hospitalisation Being female, obese, and having had mechanical ventilation in hospital are all associated with being less likely to feel fully recovered one year after COVID-19 hospitalisation.
  Medscape News UK, April 26, 2022