Jacklyn Rodriguez was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with COVID-19. Jacklyn Rodriguez was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and intubated. While sedated, nurses helped ...
Being fully vaccinated was associated with better survival for patients intubated for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) owing to COVID-19, a small multicenter study from Greece showed. In a ...
Intubation is a word that’s been mentioned a lot lately when it comes to discussing patients who are seriously ill with COVID-19. But the procedure isn’t specific to the novel coronavirus; it’s been ...
Gilbert Torres sat in his hospital bed, sheets wrapped around his legs, clutching his phone with trembling hands. Three weeks before, he was working his shift at a truck wash on South Alameda Street, ...
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 ...
Coronavirus patient Grover Wilhelmsen's request from his bed in a Utah intensive care unit was one his medical team had likely never heard before. Intubated and unable to speak at Intermountain ...
A retired orchestra teacher who was hospitalized with Covid-19 played his violin as a tribute to nurses and doctors who had been caring for him. Grover Wilhelmsen, who was hospitalized at McKay-Dee ...
An analysis of 7.6 million trauma cases over 7 years showed that 3.7% of patients underwent emergency department (ED) endotracheal intubation (ETI), which was associated with a mortality rate of 10.2% ...
Ventilators have become a common hospital metric over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, but one Michigan doctor highlighted that the use of such machines typically signals a dire future for most ...
(CNN) — A retired orchestra teacher battling Covid-19 in a Utah hospital turned to his true passion — music — to help spread some joy in the ICU. Even while being intubated and unable to speak, Grover ...