When patients with a tracheostomy tube reach a stage in their care at which decannulation appears to be possible, it is common practice to cap the tracheostomy tube for 24 hours to see whether they ...

High-flow oxygen therapy through a nasal cannula has been increasingly used in infants with bronchiolitis, despite limited high-quality evidence of its efficacy. The efficacy of high-flow oxygen ...

High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) is noninferior to noninvasive ventilation (NIV) for endotracheal intubation or death within seven days for most patients with acute respiratory failure, according to a ...

Among ICU patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, high-flow nasal oxygen reduced the incidence of intubation but did not significantly reduce 28-day mortality compared with standard oxygen ...

The conclusion was that titrating oxygen administration to adequate levels, as recommended in guidelines, [1] is safer than administering oxygen at high flow rates to patients with COPD who may have ...

Children, as well as their parents, may one day be able to breathe a little easier: The respiratory therapy company Vapotherm said a pilot study of its high-flow treatment showed it could outperform ...

Hypoxemia is the most common complication of emergency endotracheal intubation of children, with an incidence of up to 50%. In this randomized trial of children under 16 years, nasal high-flow oxygen ...

Incorporating nasal high-flow therapy during endotracheal intubation attempts in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) increased the chance of success on the first try, a randomized study found. In ...