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Study explores how to predict and prevent psychiatric morbidity in survivors of ARDS

After surviving acute respiratory distress syndrome, a disease in which fluid begins to leak into the lungs of critically ill patients and makes it difficult to breathe, many patients develop mental illness.

5 Apr 2017

Sphere Medical introduces new functionality to Proxima platform for efficient critical care patient monitoring

Sphere Medical, an innovative company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, announces the introduction of new functionality to its Proxima™ bedside blood gas, electrolyte and metabolite analyser.

22 Mar 2017

Innovative ways to target antibiotic resistance in short term

There has been much recent talk about how to target the rising tide of antibiotic resistance across the world, one of the biggest threats to global health today.

3 Mar 2017

New report highlights serious health problems faced by spinal cord injury patients

Paralysis is just one of the many serious health problems faced by patients who suffer spinal cord injuries.

16 Feb 2017

Study focuses on sound exposure for premature babies in neonatal intensive care units

Premature babies often spend the first several weeks of life in neonatal intensive care units, where, ideally, they are protected from too much noise stimulation. However, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that preemies may be exposed to noise levels higher than those deemed safe by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

8 Feb 2017

Sickest children can successfully undergo liver transplantation with advances in critical care

Advancements in critical care make it possible for even the sickest children to successfully undergo liver transplantation.

7 Feb 2017

Study finds stable trends in ventilator-associated pneumonia rates

In a study published online by JAMA, Mark L. Metersky, M.D., of the UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, and colleagues analyzed trends in Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System ventilator-associated pneumonia rates from 2005 through 2013.

11 Nov 2016

Fresh insights into immune cell could signal new approach to treating life-threatening lung condition

Fresh insights into a life-threatening lung condition triggered by blood poisoning could signal a new approach to treating the disease, researchers found.

3 Nov 2016

CHEST, ATS release new guidelines for discontinuing mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults

The American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society have published new guidelines for discontinuing mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults.

25 Oct 2016

Experts develop new communication app for adult and pediatric ICU patients

The department of Intensive Care of the Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has developed a unique communication app for adult and pediatric ICU patients, who cannot speak due to an intubation, being on a ventilator or breathing through a tracheostoma.

13 Oct 2016

Novel technology LifeVest can help newborns breathe

LifeVest, a technology being developed at St. Michael's Hospital to help newborns breathe, won the Global Healthcare Innovation Academy's international competition in Calgary.

30 Aug 2016

Interstate partners with Getinge to bring OEM ventilator batteries directly to critical care providers

Interstate Batteries announced a partnership today with Maquet Medical Systems USA (now Getinge Group) to provide original equipment manufacturer (OEM) batteries to the health care industry through its All Battery Center retail stores.

29 Aug 2016

Steroid treatment linked to increased risk of retinopathy in very low birth weight infants

Because of the beneficial effect of corticosteroids on lung function, especially in infants who are ventilator dependent, corticosteroids are, at times, administered to very low birth weight neonates to treat established or evolving lung disease. However, it has long been suspected that steroids may have negative neurodevelopmental effects on very premature infants.

16 Aug 2016

Lifestyle choices more likely to influence quality of life for ARDS survivors

A new study of patients who survive the once-nearly fatal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) finds their subsequent quality of life has more to do with lifestyle factors than how sick they were in the hospital.

27 Jul 2016

UAB receives NIH grants in three perinatal networks to improve maternal and infant health

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is the only university to be awarded grants in all three perinatal networks from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to improve maternal and infant health.

20 Jul 2016

IDSA/ATS recommends shorter courses of antibiotics for patients with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated pneumonia

Hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia– which account for 20 to 25 percent of hospital-acquired infections – should be treated with shorter courses of antibiotics than they typically are, according to new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Thoracic Society and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

14 Jul 2016

Ventilator News and Research

Study explores how to predict and prevent psychiatric morbidity in survivors of ARDS

Sphere Medical introduces new functionality to Proxima platform for efficient critical care patient monitoring

Innovative ways to target antibiotic resistance in short term

New report highlights serious health problems faced by spinal cord injury patients

Study focuses on sound exposure for premature babies in neonatal intensive care units

Sickest children can successfully undergo liver transplantation with advances in critical care

Study finds stable trends in ventilator-associated pneumonia rates

Fresh insights into immune cell could signal new approach to treating life-threatening lung condition

CHEST, ATS release new guidelines for discontinuing mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults

Experts develop new communication app for adult and pediatric ICU patients

Novel technology LifeVest can help newborns breathe

Interstate partners with Getinge to bring OEM ventilator batteries directly to critical care providers

Steroid treatment linked to increased risk of retinopathy in very low birth weight infants

Lifestyle choices more likely to influence quality of life for ARDS survivors

UAB receives NIH grants in three perinatal networks to improve maternal and infant health

IDSA/ATS recommends shorter courses of antibiotics for patients with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated pneumonia

Researchers discover strong genetic risk factor for IgA nephropathy

Reduced RV functional reserve may explain poor SSc-PAH outcomes

Medical Applications of World’s Smallest Differential Pressure Sensor

Dishwasher and laundry capsules pose threat to children

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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