Recent research suggests three post-intubation practices can decrease rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. The researchers ...

The care of immunocompromised adults with acute respiratory failure (ARF) remains one of the greatest challenges of intensive care medicine.1 Management of these patients is challenging because ...

An analysis of 7.6 million trauma cases over 7 years showed that 3.7% of patients underwent emergency department (ED) endotracheal intubation (ETI), which was associated with a mortality rate of 10.2% ...

Post-extubation airway complications represent a significant concern in critical care, with patients frequently facing risks such as laryngeal oedema, stridor and subsequent respiratory failure ...

Thirty-day mortality of patients with major trauma fell if they received intubation before hospital admission per prediction from a machine learning risk-stratifying model, according to data published ...

Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with presumed opioid overdoses rarely needed delayed intubation, suggesting that these patients may be safely managed outside of an intensive care ...

Among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation, ketamine for anesthesia did not result in a significantly lower incidence of in-hospital death by day 28 compared with etomidate. In ...