Background. Unplanned endotracheal self-extubation (UESE) can be terrifying for patients, families, and nurses. However to date, studies looking at factors that increase risk for UESE have been ...

Objective: A systematic review of weaning and extubation for pediatric patients on mechanical ventilation. Data Selection: Pediatric and adult literature, English language. Study Selection: Invited ...

A nurse-led initiative at a New Jersey hospital reversed an upward trend of unplanned extubation rates in its medical ...

"Collaborative implementation of a standardized extubation protocol and redesigned patient care processes helped us successfully achieve the goal of reducing intubation time in patients in stable ...

Our discussion below assumes that physicians have addressed metabolic, inflammatory, and infectious conditions that may be present and have corrected them to the extent possible. As soon as the ...

A multidisciplinary group at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina, developed a decision guide to provide healthcare teams with specific guidelines for swallowing care after ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is so infectious that protecting health care workers from it as they treat patients is an important issue in the fight against this pandemic. Reliable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Randi Belisomo (Reuters Health) – If you have an advance directive that cherry-picks the interventions you want to receive if ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Predicting prehospital intubation via the Intub-8 machine learning model was estimated to prevent 170 deaths a ...