Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Training via virtual reality led to better recognition of respiratory distress and impending respiratory failure ...

February 18, 2010 — Editor's note: Pediatric respiratory emergencies result from a variety of causes, including chronic medical conditions, infections, allergic reactions, and obstruction from foreign ...

Under current budget pressures in social and health care services, even small but effective improvements matter in everyday practice. A new study shows that valved holding chambers (VHCs) used to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Telemedicine provided significant interobserver reliability during clinical assessments of children in ...

China: Researchers have found in a new study that pulmonary surfactant (PS) therapy significantly improves arterial blood gas parameters and clinical symptoms in infants with neonatal respiratory ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an emergency situation in both children and adults, as it compromises the vital oxygen supply to the body. A new study published in JAMA Network Open ...

Objectives: To determine the impact of patient-specific and disease-related characteristics on the severity of illness and on outcome in pediatric patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ...

RDS is a disease process that results from an absent or diminished amount of surfactant in the newborn lung. Prematurity, therefore, plays a crucial role in the development of RDS. The incidence is ...

Some infants are more susceptible to potentially life-threatening breathing problems after birth, and rare, inherited DNA differences may explain why, according to new research. Some infants are more ...

When a pediatric patient went into respiratory distress recently, the changes were subtle. His inpatient nurse consulted with a pediatrics intensive care unit nurse, who noticed the patient was using ...

Some infants are more susceptible to potentially life-threatening breathing problems after birth, and rare, inherited DNA differences may explain why, according to research at Washington University ...