Even if the lungs themselves do not change significantly, the distance one can walk and the quality of life certainly do. Patients with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) fall into a vicious ...
When working in an acute care ward, you face this dilemma almost every day. Should you make a decision based solely on vitals, wait for a doctor's order, or proceed based on your own assessment? In ...
Clinicians may be missing critical signs of breathing discomfort or distress, especially in ventilated patients ...
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Literature on the anesthetic management of endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is limited. Anesthetic management during these procedures is still mostly dependent on individual or ...
Objective To assess the diagnostic accuracy of peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO 2) while breathing room air for 5 min (the ‘Air-Test’) in detecting postoperative atelectasis. Design ...
Background Early warning systems (EWS) used across the world typically assign a fixed number of points to patients receiving supplemental oxygen, regardless of amount. This ordinal binary approach may ...
Objective High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy is increasingly used in preterm infants despite a paucity of physiological studies. We aimed to investigate the effects of HFNC on respiratory ...
Neonatal sepsis is a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet despite this, progress in the development and implementation of effective ...