Medscape

Epidemiology of Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure

Background Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) is a front-line therapy for the management of acute respiratory failure (ARF) in the intensive care units. However, the data on factors and outcomes ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Higher versus Lower Positive End-Expiratory Pressures in Patients with the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Most patients requiring mechanical ventilation for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) receive positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 5 to 12 cm of water. Higher ...
Yahoo Finance

FDA grants 510(k) clearance to 4DMedical’s CT:VQ for respiratory diagnostics

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to 4DMedical’s non-contrast, computed tomography (CT)-based ventilation-perfusion imaging technology, CT:VQ, for respiratory ...
Salon

COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage: Three ways long COVID patients’ respiration can suffer

“I just can’t do what I used to anymore.” As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19 tell us this even ...