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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with delayed vs. early intubation had worse hospital mortality, ICU mortality and death within 90 days.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is usually a last resort strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but for cases from COVID-19 should it come sooner? Starting awake ECMO ...

Positive-pressure isolation rooms are used to reduce the risk of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients, but their use is not suitable for patients with Covid-19 owing to the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- By now you have heard about the huge demand for ventilators to help patients infected with COVID-19. But why are they needed and how are they used? That's the question we posed to Dr.

As supplies run low in Brazilian hospitals, one coastal town says it may be forced to take Covid-19 patients off their ventilators due to shortages in the medicines used for intubation. Coronavirus ...

Health care capacity in the United States is starting to be pushed to its limit, as some communities have run out of space to treat patients needing intensive care with major cities such as St. Louis, ...