The Environmental Protection Agency estimates radon causes about 21,000 lung cancer deaths annually ... improve the air you breathe at home. Ventilation systems that bring fresh outdoor air ...

A lung-protective ventilation strategy requires optimal PEEP and tidal volume settings. Finding and maintaining these crucial settings during the course of therapy is challenging - even for ...

More information: Raimondo Ascione et al, "Low Frequency Ventilation during cardiopulmonary bypass to protect postoperative ...

Complex airway surgery, particularly tracheal/carinal resection and reconstruction, is still considered as the “crown jewel” of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Notably, during these ...

VQ Biomedical, a startup born at Duke University, has secured $5 million in funding to advance a device it says will treat ...

ARDS is a severe lung condition that affects roughly 10% of intensive care unit patients and carries a mortality rate of 30–40%, even with modern ventilation techniques. Using a pig model of ...

was admitted in your ICU 2 d ago with a diagnosis of acute lung injury secondary to a viral pneumonia. He failed a trial of noninvasive mechanical ventilation and has been intubated 12 hr ago.

rather than a ventilation mask, as he continued to fight pneumonia, the Vatican said. The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man ...

This naturally occurring radioactive gas accumulates in homes without proper ventilation ... erases many protective benefits, maintaining cessation represents a crucial aspect of lung cancer ...