Discharge planning works best when a team of multidisciplinary health-care professionals works on the process together. The physician, primary RN, social service, insurance provider and case manager, ...

The care of patients who are receiving artificial mechanical ventilation is complex and requires skill and experience. This two-part series outlines some of the important aspects of one specific part ...

Patient Safety First, a campaign to make patient safety everyone’s top priority, was launched in June 2008. It currently consists of four clinical and one leadership intervention, and is sponsored by ...

Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a mode of ventilation controlled by the electrical activity of the diaphragm (Edi). The aim was to evaluate patient–ventilator interaction in infants ...

MARKHAM, ON, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced the Canadian launch of the Philips Respironics V680 Ventilator for hospital respiratory care, offering both ...

Nihon Kohden, a global leader in life-support solutions backed by more than seven decades of clinical expertise, are presenting two expert-led sessions at the AARC 2025 International Congress, taking ...

Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers ...

Our ICU started using an oral care protocol for patients receiving mechanical ventilation to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) last year. However, one of our physicians said that oral care ...

At a scale unheard of in their home country, American architecture firms are using natural ventilation to achieve energy savings, resilience, and patient comfort in two major health-care projects in ...

LYON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD), a world-leading digital health company, today launched cloud-based remote monitoring software for ventilators and Lumis bilevel devices ...

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 ...

A coronavirus patient in the Bronx in New York City died last month while being cared for by medical residents who didn't know how to work her ventilator. The incident at Montefiore Medical Center was ...