Concerns about safety, competing priorities and uncooperative patients were among the barriers identified by critical care nurses for not mobilizing intubated patients receiving mechanical ventilation ...

Discharge planning works best when a team of multidisciplinary health-care professionals works on the process together. The physician, primary RN, social service, insurance provider and case manager, ...

It is common for poor synchrony to occur in both invasive and noninvasive mechanical ventilation. It is a serious problem that may lead to increased patient discomfort, prolonged mechanical ...

The field of mechanical ventilation has grown since the iron lung was developed to support the victims of the polio epidemic the 1950s. Positive-pressure ventilation via an artificial airway has ...