If you’re a regular reader of Quick Drills, you know we spend most of our time in this column covering the basic fireground and rescue skills that each of us need to be good at our jobs. This month is ...
MOTIVATION: Ventilation is an essential element of almost any firefighting operation. Removal of smoke, heat, and hot gases can make is easier to see potential victims, reduce potential harm to ...
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 ...
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 ...
As apartment buildings become taller and their resident capacities become larger, proper ventilation continues to be an ongoing challenge. Owners and tenants are striving to become more energy ...
In October, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences hosted a conference on negative pressure ventilation, a less common but useful breathing therapy alternative.
With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...