A revolutionary surgery developed by Dr. Richard Hopper, surgical director of Seattle Children's Craniofacial Center, called subcranial rotation distraction, is changing the lives of children who are ...
A study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Airway Management, warns anesthesiologists of using supraglottic airways in patients in a prone position, Anesthesiology News reports. Thomas ...
Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...
Encephalocele results from failure of surface ectoderm to separate from the neuroectoderm. Its prevalence is 1 to 4 cases per 10 000 live births. 1 Occipital encephalocele (OE) is usually ...
—These investigators identified predictors of 60-day survival in patients with influenza pneumonia-related ARDS receiving prone positioning during mechanical ventilation. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD ...
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses released standardized guidelines to assist nurses in caring for patients undergoing prone positioning therapy, according to a May 16 practice alert. In ...
Experimental setup, showing the 3D phantom on a moving treatment couch. (Courtesy: C Hazelaar et al Radiother. Oncol. 10.1016/jradonc.2018.08.007 ©2018 Elsevier). Patients receiving stereotactic body ...
The impacts of the coronavirus can range from mild illness with no symptoms to severe illness with pneumonia and in critical cases, even respiratory failure. A new study conducted on patients with ...
Upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) is a type of sleep-related breathing disorder similar to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), but it’s less severe. People who experience UARS have narrow ...