What is patient/ventilator synchrony? Broadly speaking, a patient and ventilator are in synchrony when the settings on the ventilator are matched with what the patient's respiratory system is trying ...

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Medical Director, Adult Emergency Services, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, ...

A lung-protective ventilation strategy requires optimal PEEP and tidal volume settings. Finding and maintaining these crucial settings during the course of therapy is challenging - even for ...

CorVent Medical, Inc., an innovative medtech company applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve outcomes for critically ill, ventilated patients, today announced the ...

The emotional strain on parents and other caregivers faced with deciding whether a tracheotomy is the best treatment for ...

A new low-cost ventilator design invented during COVID-19 could address the global shortage of ventilators for other respiratory diseases. The ventilators, which are required by patients in intensive ...