Research exploring protective mechanical ventilation strategies for acute respiratory distress syndrome was presented at the ERS Congress by Luca Menga, MD, University of Toronto.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A meta-analysis recently published in JAMA suggests that home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, or ...

Some patients with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exhibit clear contraindications to noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV); such contraindications include impending ...

Study objectives: To determine the 1-year efficacy of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) added to long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) in patients with stable severe COPD. Patient selection ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently released a two-disk DVD set that demonstrates how Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV), a technique in which powerful fans force ...

Lyons, IL, Fire Department (LFD) Fire Chief Gordon Nord Jr. is a proponent of the implementation of positive pressure ventilation (PPV) on the fireground. “The days of old, when you’d break every ...

To minimize the exposure of health care workers to SARS-CoV-2, the number of staff present during endotracheal intubation should be limited. Four operators, whose roles are predefined, should be ...

In patients with COPD and hypercapnia, the use of home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation compared with no device was significantly associated with improved clinical outcomes but no significant ...