In medicine, there is no area as primitive yet as urgent, where not a single moment of delay can be tolerated, as the act of "making someone breathe." Airway management is something we medical ...

1 Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of ...

Introduction Postoperative delirium is common among older cardiac surgery patients. Often difficult to predict and address prophylactically, delirium complicates the postoperative course by increasing ...

Objectives and design A qualitative study was undertaken to explore the nature of staffing strategies from the perspectives of nursing, medicine and health disciplines employed in a hospital setting.

The probability for successful first-attempt intubation was greater among adults who received high- vs. standard-dose ...

For patients struggling to breathe because of acute respiratory failure, clearing mucus from the airways is a routine part of ...

On recognition of a cardiac arrest event, a layperson should simultaneously and promptly activate the emergency response system and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Recognition that all ...

Respiratory support is a series of significant techniques used widely in clinical which saves a great number of patients with impaired pulmonary function and respiratory failure caused by pneumonia, ...

6 Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool and Department of Gastroenterology, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK Iron ...

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aDepartment of Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA bDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA ...