High-flow nasal cannula shows similar efficacy to CPAP in preventing BPD in preterm infants, with a significantly lower risk of nasal injury.

In recent decades, acupuncture has attracted extensive research spanning an astonishingly wide array of medical conditions, from chronic pain and neurological disorders to infectious diseases and ...

Medical speech-language pathology (SLP) is experiencing a surge in demand across hospitals, home health agencies, and post-acute facilities. The population is aging, and the number of individuals ...

Brachycephalic dogs are overrepresented among peri and post-anesthetic respiratory complications, and many serious adverse events in small animals cluster around extubation and early recovery. A ...

Objective To evaluate the feasibility of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) to describe the regional tidal ventilation (V T) and change in end-expiratory lung volume (EELV) patterns in preterm ...

In critically ill patients, liberation from mechanical ventilation is a pivotal milestone; however, extubation failure remains common, costly, and potentially harmful. Traditional criteria for ...

Extubation is when the doctor takes out a tube that helps you breathe. Sometimes, because of illness, injury, or surgery, you need help to breathe. Your doctor or anesthesiologist (a doctor who puts ...

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of simple motor tasks such as hand grasping and tongue protrusion as predictors of extubation failure in critically ill neurological patients. Methods: This was a ...

In medically challenging patients, extubation is far from a routine step. Although protocols and clinical criteria exist, the decision to remove a patient’s endotracheal tube in high-risk situations ...

1 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Fattouma Bourguiba Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia 2 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Fattouma Bourguiba Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia Introduction: Prolonged ...