The COVID-19 pandemic is a rapidly evolving global health crisis. The condition COVID-19 develops as a result of infection from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and can ...

Fifty years ago, Ashbaugh and colleagues described 12 patients with tachypnea, refractory hypoxemia, and diffuse opacities on chest radiographs after infection or trauma. 1 Prominent hyaline membranes ...

Previous trials suggesting that high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) reduced mortality among adults with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) were limited by the use of outdated ...

Oxygen is a vital element for human life, and lack of it leads to death in just a few minutes. A condition where the respiratory system fails in one or both of its gas exchange functions (oxygenation ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Pulmonary vascular dilation appears to play a role in ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For hypoxemic patients, early intervention with an inhaled corticosteroid plus a long-acting beta₂ agonist significantly improves outcomes, according to results from LIPS-B — the Lung ...

Among extremely preterm infants, prolonged episodes of hypoxemia (abnormally low levels of oxygen in the blood, which leads to shortness of breath) during the first two to three months after birth ...

Acute respiratory insufficiency is a condition in which the respiratory system is unable to provide adequate oxygen to the body or remove enough carbon dioxide from the blood. It leads to a state ...