Too much respiratory effort can injure both the lung and the diaphragm, whereas too much ventilator support with unduly high ...

The researchers note that a key feature of the study was the use of a standardized daily spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) in ...

A group of Children's Hospital Los Angeles researchers found that ventilation managed by a computerized decision support (CDS ...

Dr. Simrit Parmar, an associate professor in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University and founder of the ...

The conditions of mortality and morbidity, however, called for new explanations: in the first place, the healing phase of acute respiratory-distress syndrome was prolonged; secondly, chronic ...

The association between age and 90-day mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome was nonlinear. The risk for death stayed elevated after a patient turned 65 years old but rose in a slower ...

The authors vouch for the completeness and accuracy of the data and for the adherence of the study to the protocol (available at NEJM.org ... died of acute respiratory distress syndrome with ...