A recent editorial analysis found that neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) significantly increase expiratory tidal volumes ...

March 5, 2004 — Overweight and obese patients with acute lung injury benefit from low tidal volumes similar to those used in patients of normal weight, according to the results of a secondary analysis ...

The initiation of breathing at birth is an essential but complex adaptation that must rapidly transition the fluid filled fetal lung to gas exchange (1). Critical components of this transition are ...

Better Outcomes for Ventilation With Lower Tidal Volumes Protective ventilation with lower tidal volumes is associated with better clinical outcomes in patients without acute respiratory distress ...

Reduction of tidal volume in mechanically ventilated patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery could improve secondary outcomes, according to a report published in Anesthesiology. Reduction of ...

Survival of patients with acute lung injury or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been improved by ventilation with small tidal volumes and the use of positive end-expiratory pressure ...

Background: In anesthetized patients undergoing surgery, the role of lung-protective ventilation with lower tidal volumes is unclear. We performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs ...

Outcomes improved with a novel ventilation protocol during radiofrequency ablation of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (Afib), registry data across 12 institutions showed. After hospitals implemented ...

What is patient/ventilator synchrony? Broadly speaking, a patient and ventilator are in synchrony when the settings on the ventilator are matched with what the patient's respiratory system is trying ...

A discrepancy between the predicted ventilation standards and the actual ventilation requirements may be caused by an increase in the physiologic dead space or by an increased carbon dioxide ...