Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers ...

A Wausau Nursing Assistant is facing charges of recklessly endangering safety and recklessly abusing patients, accused of unhooking a patient’s ventilator. Court documents say police were called to ...

It is safe to treat stable, chronic ventilator-dependent patients in their homes. [5] Home care is less costly than acute care. Guber and colleagues reported that home mechanical ventilation was as ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A higher proportion of prolonged mechanical ventilation patients discharged alive achieved successful vs.

Is oral feeding of a patient who is ventilator-dependent and has a chronic indwelling tracheostomy tube acceptable? Isn’t there a risk of aspiration if patients with tracheostomies who do not have ...

Our ICU started using an oral care protocol for patients receiving mechanical ventilation to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) last year. However, one of our physicians said that oral care ...

Rock emphasized that Montana's recreational lifestyle makes the unit particularly valuable for trauma patients.