“Specialists who place breathing tubes in the hospital (emergency medicine, anesthesiology and critical care clinicians) have expressed concerns that smaller breathing tubes might keep patients on a ...

Earlier this year, an ambulance brought a man in his 80s to the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He had metastatic lung cancer; his family had arranged for hospice care at ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for $7 million in research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on ...

Modified endotracheal tubes designed to reduce patient pneumonia risk failed to improve outcomes compared to standard breathing tubes, researchers report in a new study. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine, while placing a breathing tube, according to a randomized trial published ...

A Los Angeles hospital is asking for the public’s help identifying two men hooked up to breathing tubes and who have been receiving treatment this week, according to officials. Los Angeles General ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A large U.S. randomized trial published in the New England ...