Nature

Continuous positive airway pressure: early, late, or stay with synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation?

Despite the advent of new strategies to prevent and treat respiratory distress such as prenatal steroids and surfactant therapy, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains a major complication in ...
Nature

Continuous positive airway pressure and conventional mechanical ventilation in the treatment of meconium aspiration syndrome

Approximately 8 to 19% of all term deliveries occur through meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF) and MAS develops in 5 to 33% of these infants. 3 Respiratory complications of MAS are often the ...
CMAJ

Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation in acute respiratory failure

Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation is a type of mechanical ventilation that does not require an artificial airway. Studies published in the 1990s that evaluated the efficacy of this technique ...
MedPage Today on MSN

They Need a Ventilator to Stay Alive. Getting One Can Be a Nightmare.

Many people permanently on ventilators prefer to live at home as long as they can. But care there can be perilous and pricey.
The Nation Newspaper

FUTA dons develop positive pressure ventilator

A team of researchers from the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA has developed a positive pressure ventilator, a variant of mechanical ventilator. Presenting the prototype to the university ...
Yahoo Finance

Lungpacer Medical Announces Positive Results from STIMULUS Trial: Diaphragm Neurostimulation Improves Hemodynamic Performance During Mechanical Ventilation

EXTON, Pa., Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lungpacer Medical, a neurostimulation company dedicated to developing innovative interventional therapies to free patients from mechanical ventilation (MV ...