Deb Massey is also a Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, John Flynn Hospital. The current wave of COVID cases is leading to more hospital and intensive care (ICU) admissions. Frontline health ...
Many moms-to-be look forward to deciding what to dress their newborn baby in and how to decorate the nursery. But that was taken away for Katherine 'Katt' Campbell, who was instead faced with the ...
Being fully vaccinated was associated with better survival for patients intubated for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) owing to COVID-19, a small multicenter study from Greece showed. In a ...
Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...
A retired orchestra teacher who was hospitalized with Covid-19 played his violin as a tribute to nurses and doctors who had been caring for him. Grover Wilhelmsen, who was hospitalized at McKay-Dee ...
(HealthDay)—Holding intubated infants in the intensive care unit is well tolerated and does not increase adverse events, according to a study published in the December issue of Critical Care Nurse.
It was mid-March, and I was fighting a nagging sinus infection — the second in a month — taking an antibiotic prescribed by my primary care doctor and using a sinus rinse. But I wasn’t getting any ...
Grover Wilhelmsen, who is expected to recover, played for hospital staffers until he had to be sedated due to his illness Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been ...
I was 41 years old and in good health. I didn’t have COVID-19, but I definitely had a virus and was intubated and put on a ventilator. Being intubated for any substantial amount of time is dangerous, ...
Cleo Shepherd died on Monday from complications related to COVID-19 A devastated family is mourning the death of Cleo Shepherd, a 20-year-old woman who told her mother before she was intubated that ...
A Texas mother is fighting for her life after she was intubated just days after giving birth to her first child despite being vaccinated. Alexandra Chandler tested positive for COVID-19 before going ...
The electrolarynx can be seen in black (arrow). The electrolarynx, which is known for its use after laryngectomy, is an oscillating device that produces vibrations that allow the user to speak. We ...