When the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic in mid-March 2020, intensive care units in Kenya started witnessing an influx of severely ill patients. Even though the virus was taking ...

Ventilators can assist with lung function for those with severe respiratory infections, and it's often necessary in the ICU.

Social vulnerability in older adults hospitalized with flu was linked with a modest but higher prevalence of invasive mechanical ventilation and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life ...

Dr. Robinder Khemani, Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine,Children's Hospital Los Angeles led study evaluating computerized ventilation for pediatric acute respiratory distress ...

The problem is that deep sedation inhibits patients from moving their bodies, causing potentially disabling muscle wasting, ...