Placement of a double-lumen endotracheal tube is an airway-management technique that permits isolation and selective ventilation of a single lung. Double-lumen tubes are bifurcated into a bronchial ...

I have always thought that if a patient had unilateral lung disease, ie, unilateral pulmonary edema, lobar pneumonia, or pneumothorax, that to improve oxygenation urgently, the patient could be placed ...

They have just published the results of their study in the journal Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. During normal breathing, the diaphragm descends below the lungs with each breath. This ...

Using a lung and diaphragm protective ventilation strategy guided by a computerized decision support tool during the acute phase of ventilation shortened the duration of weaning, a pediatric phase II ...

Supporting patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), remains a critical challenge in intensive care units ...

The FDA approval also includes the introduction of new Xenoview dose delivery bag sizes for smaller lungs. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval of Xenoview ® (xenon Xe 129 ...

Polarean, a commercial-stage medical imaging company advancing functional MRI of the lungs, today highlighted the publication ...

The approval was based on data from 2 clinical trials that compared Xenoview MRI to xenon Xe 133 scintigraphy in adults with pulmonary disorders. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model ...

After a long and bumpy path to approval, the U.S. FDA has finally given the green light to Cyclopharm Ltd.'s Technegas combination product a day after the Sept. 29 PDUFA date. Technegas is a nuclear ...