Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ventilators may unintentionally harm patients; research is lacking in children. A new study will test how well ...

LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2023) — Critically ill children on ventilator support can experience a mismatch between their breathing efforts and the rhythm delivered by the ventilator. This mismatch, called ...

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who ...

There is no difference in ventilator use or protocol between pediatric and adult patients, Dalabih said. The machines are the same size as those used for adults. "The difference is if we have a ...

Last month, Philips issued a huge recall of ventilators and continuous positive airway pressure machines, leaving millions of people with sleep apnea unsure of how they'll get a good night's sleep.

Millions of Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a condition that can interrupt a person’s airways and breathing while they sleep, and now, those people have one more reason to be on alert. A massive ...