Mechanical Ventilation News

• PPI Prophylaxis Prevents GI Bleed in Ventilated Patients A randomized trial and a meta-analysis together provided evidence that PPIs can prevent upper GI bleeding in critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation, with little or no effect on mortality.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• Philips Issues Update on Ventilator Alarm Failure Urgent recall in April recommended removing patients from devices if an inoperative alarm occurred.
  Medscape Medical News, July 03, 2024
• How Has the RSV Season Changed Since the Pandemic Began? The RSV season is peaking earlier and entailing higher rates of hospitalization, according to Canadian data.
  Medscape Medical News, July 03, 2024
• HRS 2024 Honing Catheter Ablation Techniques for Atrial Fibrillation High-volume centers with more than 100 operators have gathered data on 7000 patients and counting to continually improve outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• Sugammadex Didn't Hasten Post Bariatric Surgery Discharge Patients were not discharged any earlier after administration of sugammadex than with neostigmine.
  Medscape Medical News, June 20, 2024
• These MD Architects Want to Redesign Your Hospital Doctors trained in design say that optimized healthcare facilities can improve patient care and reduce stress for healthcare workers. And they have data to prove it.
  Medscape Medical News, June 05, 2024
• Philips Resolves Respironics Lawsuits The company announced plans to settle litigation related to 2021 device recall.
  Medscape Medical News, May 01, 2024
• New Trial Deepens Debate Over Late-Preterm Steroids Steroids can prevent neonatal respiratory distress in women at risk for delivery before 34 weeks, but their utility in women expected to deliver later in pregnancy but still preterm remains unclear.
  MDedge News, April 17, 2024
• ACC 2024 Novel Drug Shows a Signal to Improve nHCM In the phase 2 IMPROVE-HCM trial, cardiac mitotrope ninerafaxstat was safe, with a signal of improved cardiac function in moderate nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2024
• Surgical Clot Removal Superior to Meds Alone in ICH The benefit in functional outcome is a welcome finding for these deadly strokes but was restricted to a select patient population, one expert suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2024
• Philips Shares Rise on Final US Deal on Sleep Apnea Machines Philips announced the main terms of an agreement it reached in January with the U.S. government on its new sleep apnea machines, which has already cost the company over 360...
  Reuters Health Information, April 10, 2024
• US Federal Court Orders Philips to Restrict Production Of Sleep Apnea Devices A U.S. federal court issued a decree to restrict the production and sale of Philips' new sleep apnea machines at several facilities in the country, the Food and Drug...
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2024
• US FDA Classifies Recall Of Vyaire Medical's Respiratory Devices as Most Serious The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday classified the recall of privately held Vyaire Medical's respiratory support devices as most serious and said their use...
  Reuters Health Information, March 21, 2024
• Managing Asparaginase Toxicity in ALL Asparaginase remains a mainstay of ALL treatment despite challenging side effects, with clinicians continuously adjusting therapy and developing new strategies to mitigate toxicity.
  MDedge News, February 25, 2024
• New Evidence Suggests Long COVID Could Be a Brain Injury Long-COVID sufferers of brain fog and memory loss exhibit elevated biomarkers consistent with brain injury.
  Medscape Medical News, February 08, 2024
• Coma Due to Poisoning: Caution Urged in Intubation For comatose patients with suspected acute poisoning, a conservative strategy aiming to avoid intubation is associated with superior clinical benefits, data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, February 06, 2024
• Philips' US Sales Of Sleep Apnea Devices Face Years-long Halt After FDA Deal Dutch health technology company Philips will not sell new devices to treat sleep apnea in the U.S. in the coming years as it works to comply with a settlement with the Food...
  Reuters Health Information, January 28, 2024
• A Military Nurse Saves a Life After a Brutal Rollover Crash The victim of a violent car crash had little chance of survival — until a nurse recovering from heart surgery stepped in.
  Medscape Medical News, January 23, 2024
• Toothbrushing in Hospital Reduces Infections and Death Daily toothbrushing was associated with a 33% reduction in risk for hospital-acquired pneumonia among inpatients, according to a recent analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, January 11, 2024
• Infections Down in Acute Care Hospitals Prevention strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections are having an effect, according to a new report on national- and state-level incidence.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2023