Modified endotracheal tubes designed to reduce patient pneumonia risk failed to improve outcomes compared to standard ...
Deb Massey is also a Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, John Flynn Hospital. The current wave of COVID cases is leading to more hospital and intensive care (ICU) admissions. Frontline health ...
Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...
Mechanical ventilation saves lives, but the airflow it produces inside an intubated airway can also shape conditions linked ...
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Jacklyn Rodriguez was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with COVID-19. Jacklyn Rodriguez was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and intubated. While sedated, nurses helped ...
Intubation is a word that’s been mentioned a lot lately when it comes to discussing patients who are seriously ill with COVID-19. But the procedure isn’t specific to the novel coronavirus; it’s been ...
A retired orchestra teacher battling Covid-19 in a Utah hospital turned to his true passion – music – to help spread some joy in the ICU. Even while being intubated and unable to speak, Grover ...
A retired orchestra teacher who was hospitalized with Covid-19 played his violin as a tribute to nurses and doctors who had been caring for him. Grover Wilhelmsen, who was hospitalized at McKay-Dee ...