Research from the University of Michigan Medical School finds that one in three hospitalized patients remain connected to a breathing tube after passing a spontaneous breathing trial. While a delay in ...

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at hospital compared to insertion afterwards, suggests a modeling study led by ...

“Specialists who place breathing tubes in the hospital (emergency medicine, anesthesiology and critical care clinicians) have expressed concerns that smaller breathing tubes might keep patients on a ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for $7 million in research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on ...

Modified endotracheal tubes designed to reduce patient pneumonia risk failed to improve outcomes compared to standard breathing tubes, researchers report in a new study. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

His life nearly went down the tubes. Doctors at Elmhurst Medical Center left a 10-inch breathing tube in a Queens man’s body — and didn’t realize the mistake or retrieve it for an astounding 30 more ...

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at hospital compared to insertion afterwards, suggests a modeling study led by ...

A Los Angeles hospital is asking for the public’s help identifying two men hooked up to breathing tubes and who have been receiving treatment this week, according to officials. Los Angeles General ...

Earlier this year, an ambulance brought a man in his 80s to the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He had metastatic lung cancer; his family had arranged for hospice care at ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine, while placing a breathing tube, according to a randomized trial published ...

Ventilators, medical devices that help patients breathe, are highly sought after and hard to find in the coronavirus pandemic. Ventilators keep patients breathing and give them time to fight the virus ...