This is a Kaiser Health News story. As the number of COVID-19 patients climbs and health officials hunt for ventilators to treat them, nursing homes across the United States have a cache about 8,200 ...

The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new ...

Whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) reduces mortality among patients undergoing mechanical ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Ventilation systems at nursing homes are getting a closer look, and Dartmouth College is preparing to keep students in their dorm rooms for at least 48 hours after they arrive on ...

Irvine-based software firm Smudge Laboratories Inc. has a new focus to help hospitals workers during the COVID-19 crisis, using its 3D modeling technology to create interactive user manuals for ...

Lungs, obese male In patients with sepsis admitted to the ICU who were classified as obese experienced longer durations of ventilator use and had a higher risk for ARDS compared with patients with a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated the recall of Draeger Medical’s Carina Sub-Acute Care Ventilator in pediatric patients as ...

The complexity of the disease has made ventilator use challenging. Treatment of COVID-19 has been a medical puzzle for front-line doctors largely learning about the disease in real-time without proven ...