By now you have heard about the huge demand for ventilators to help patients infected with COVID-19. But why are they needed and how are they used? Here's why intubation is needed to treat ...

Intubation could become a relic of the Covid era Getting its inspiration from nature, a medical-device company is developing a less invasive way to oxygenate blood without mechanical ventilation. It’s ...

Prone positioning significantly reduced the need for intubation among nonintubated adults with COVID-19, as indicated by data from a new meta-analysis of more than 2000 individuals.

Awake prone positioning reduced intubation risk and hospital length of stay for patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen through high-flow nasal cannula, according to results of the PROCARF trial ...

Awake prone positioning does not offer benefit in reducing intubation for COVID-19 induced acute respiratory failure Date: June 29, 2022 Source: University of Texas Health Science Center at ...

Given the concern of limited resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, awake prone positioning, in which a non-intubated patient lies face down, was adopted as an intervention for patients with ...

Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) second to COVID-19 improved with early continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) treatment, a study finds.

Procedures like inserting or removing breathing tubes, which were thought to pose a serious danger of Covid-19 transmission to health workers, produce less aerosols than a normal cough, according ...

Tracheostomy was associated with better in-hospital survival of intubated patients with severe COVID-19 infection compared with intubated patients who did not receive a tracheostomy, a study has ...