A large U.S. randomized trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that etomidate, compared with ketamine, ...

Earlier this year, an ambulance brought a man in his 80s to the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He had metastatic lung cancer; his family had arranged for hospice care at ...

Modified endotracheal tubes designed to reduce patient pneumonia risk failed to improve outcomes compared to standard ...

A newer breathing tube could save the lives of more than 10,000 sudden cardiac arrest patients a year for a simple reason: it's easier than standard intubation to insert on the first try, according to ...

Maintaining an open airway is a critical priority in emergency medicine. Without the flow of oxygen, other emergency interventions can become ineffective at saving the patient’s life. However, ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $7 million, five-year funding award from PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) to compare two sedatives used to place breathing tubes ...

While there is much back and forth around how aerosols may impact the "correct" social distance, this has been a great concern to anesthesiologists, nurses, and technicians who have to place breathing ...

SAN ANTONIO – With the spread of the novel coronavirus, a group of UTSA engineers set out to solve a problem in the medical community and try to help people who become infected with COVID-19 in the ...

Medical staff of the Intensive Care Unit of the Casalpalocco COVID-19 Clinic in the outskirts of Rome tend to patients, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. The number of those hospitalized with COVID-19, ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine, while placing a breathing tube, according to a randomized trial published ...