Mechanical Ventilation News

• Early Mobilization May Reduce Cognitive Risk in Critical Care Patients who had earlier physical and occupational therapy in the ICU also demonstrated less neuromuscular weakness than did controls who started therapy later.
  Medscape Medical News, March 03, 2023
• New Tx Approach for Immunotherapy-Induced Myocarditis A novel combination of high-dose abatacept, ruxolitinib, and mechanical ventilation markedly improved immunotherapy-induced myocarditis survival over current guideline-recommended treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2023
• Reimagining Public Health: It's Time, but Is It Possible? As battered institutions assess the damage of the pandemic, the United States has an opportunity to transform the system that got us here.
  Medscape Medical News, February 23, 2023
• SCCM 2023 Prone Positioning Curbs Intubation in Some COVID-19 Patients A subgroup analysis also showed that intubation risk was reduced for patients supported by high-flow nasal cannula or noninvasive ventilation.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2023
• FDA Classifies Recall of Respiratory Devices as Most Serious The FDA on Thursday classified the recall of Dutch medical devices maker Philips' respiratory machines as most serious, saying their use could lead to injuries or death.
  Reuters Health Information, February 16, 2023
• Paxlovid Doesn’t Increase Risk for Rebound COVID Infection: Study The findings offer clarity amid concerns that the use of Paxlovid increased the risk for COVID-19 rebound.
  WebMD Health News, February 15, 2023
• SCCM 2023 Methylene Blue Adds Value in Treating Septic Shock Intravenous methylene blue significantly shortened time to shock reversal in patients within 24 hours of septic shock.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2023
• Acute Cardiac Events Common During COVID Hospitalization Acute cardiac events are common among adults hospitalized for COVID-19 and are associated with more severe outcomes, new results show.
  Medscape Medical News, February 06, 2023
• Three Wild Health Technologies in (or Close to) Clinical Trials If you thought AI was remarkable, just wait until you see these.
  WebMD Health News, February 03, 2023
• Q&A With Long COVID Patient, Researcher: Treatments Lagging The co-author of a new study on long COVID is also a long COVID patient. She shares her story as a patient and of her work to study its origins, what we know, and what we need to do.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2023
• COVID Dramatically Increases Death Risk During Pregnancy: Study Women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy are seven times more likely to die during childbirth or during the pregnancy than uninfected pregnant women.
  WebMD Health News, January 17, 2023
• China's 'Great Migration' Kicks Off Under Shadow of COVID China on Saturday marked the first day of "chun yun," the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people.
  Reuters Health Information, January 07, 2023
• 'Reassuring' Data on Pregnancy With Ischemic Heart Disease A new study suggests that among women with preexisting IHD without cardiomyopathy, risks of severe maternal morbidity and mortality are similar to risks for women with other low-risk cardiac conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2022
• AES 2022 Significant Racial Disparities Persist in Status Epilepticus A new study found that Blacks were twice as likely to be hospitalized for status epilepticus as Whites, and there were age and income disparities as well.
  Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2022
• ACEP 2022 Know the Right Resuscitation for Right-Sided Heart Failure An expert emergency physician explained the distinctive features of right ventricle failure and how to manage it.
  Medscape Medical News, December 07, 2022
• Shorter Fever Prevention Duration Effective After Cardiac Arrest Results from the BOX randomized trial show no difference in outcomes with 36 vs 72 hours of cooling, and challenge current guidelines for fever prevention after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2022
• RSV Causes 1 in 50 Deaths in Children Under Age 5: Study Researchers evaluated the health records of 9154 infants born between July 1, 2017, and July 31, 2020, who were treated at health centers across Europe.
  WebMD Health News, November 11, 2022
• Is Opioid Abuse Leading to Ped Head Trauma? As rates of traumatic injuries and opioid abuse in children increase in Appalachia, physicians have called for standardized protocols for drug testing of pediatric trauma patients.
  Medscape Medical News, November 08, 2022
• AHA 2022 Steroids Fail to Deliver Clear Benefits in Infant Heart Surgery Despite its size and novel design, the STRESS trial could not deliver an answer to the clinical conundrum of whether perioperative steroids are warranted.
  Medscape Medical News, November 07, 2022
• CHEST 2022 Pulmonologist Consult at COPD Admission Reduces Risk of Return In patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on admission, an early pulmonologist consult reduces the 90-day rate of readmission.
  Medscape Medical News, November 03, 2022