When patients with a tracheostomy tube reach a stage in their care at which decannulation appears to be possible, it is common practice to cap the tracheostomy tube for 24 hours to see whether they ...

Among ICU patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, high-flow nasal oxygen reduced the incidence of intubation but did not significantly reduce 28-day mortality compared with standard oxygen ...

Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...

High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) is noninferior to noninvasive ventilation (NIV) for endotracheal intubation or death within seven days for most patients with acute respiratory failure, according to a ...

High-flow oxygen therapy through a nasal cannula has been increasingly used in infants with bronchiolitis, despite limited high-quality evidence of its efficacy. The efficacy of high-flow oxygen ...

In a large randomized trial, treating patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure with high-flow oxygen didn't improve survival compared with standard oxygen. However, high-flow oxygen did ...

The conclusion was that titrating oxygen administration to adequate levels, as recommended in guidelines, [1] is safer than administering oxygen at high flow rates to patients with COPD who may have ...

Children, as well as their parents, may one day be able to breathe a little easier: The respiratory therapy company Vapotherm said a pilot study of its high-flow treatment showed it could outperform ...

Hypoxemia is the most common complication of emergency endotracheal intubation of children, with an incidence of up to 50%. In this randomized trial of children under 16 years, nasal high-flow oxygen ...