Health minister Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana has urged Rwandans to continue testing their vehicles’ emissions to address rising concerns over respiratory diseases. He stressed this on Saturday, November 22, ...

The management of a patient with a chest injury who only inhales requires a multidisciplinary approach, involving emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, respiratory therapists, and nurses. The ...

Definition: Total lung capacity is the total amount of air that the lungs can hold after a maximal inspiration. It is the sum ...

One of the biggest concerns with upper respiratory tract infections, like the common cold or a nasal infection, is the potential for more serious deep lung secondary infections, like pneumonia. If ...

Introduction Monitoring respiratory mechanics may provide important information for the intensivist, assisting in the early detection of pulmonary function changes of patients hospitalized in ICU.

Abstract: Intra-breath oscillometry (IBOsc) offers a high-resolution, non-invasive assessment of respiratory mechanics by tracking within-breath variations in respiratory impedance. Unlike traditional ...

Background: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe condition characterized by lung stiffness and compromised gas exchange, often requiring mechanical ventilation for treatment. In ...

Objective: To evaluate how ventilatory support, the duration of invasive ventilatory support use and lung mechanics are related to barotrauma development in patients who are severely infected with ...

1 Divisions of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Los Angeles, USA. 2 Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. 3 Liver Diseases, Rancho Los ...

The following is a summary of “Differences of respiratory mechanics in mechanical ventilation of acute respiratory distress syndrome between patients with COVID-19 and Influenza A,” published in the ...

Whether COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) should be approached differently in terms of mechanical ventilation therapy compared to other virus-induced ARDS is debatable.