Introduction: Optimal ventilation during pediatric laparoscopic surgery is a debated issue, as pneumoperitoneum impairs respiratory mechanics and may increase ventilator-induced lung injury. Aim: We ...

Reference: Russotto V et al. "Airway management in critically ill patients with obesity." Intensive Care Med. 2026. Working in the ICU, I encounter this situation regularly. For a patient who has lost ...

Importance Structured communication tools and decision aids are recommended to facilitate goals of care discussions (GOCDs) in hospitalised patients, but their impact remains unclear. Objective To ...

This may be sudden, but... I once performed an esophageal intubation (misplaced intubation) in the past. A shocking statement right off the bat🫨 That was 15 years ago... It happened during my ...

The trial of two men accused of a string of offences against a baby boy they were in the process of adopting continues today (May 14). Preston Davey was 13 months old when he died after being taken to ...

Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) is the gold standard for securing a compromised airway. This critical procedure is designed to minimize the time between the loss of protective reflexes and the ...

Introduction Emergency intubation of children with abnormal respiratory or cardiac physiology is a high-risk procedure and associated with a high incidence of adverse events including hypoxemia.

When Sam Glassenberg’s 5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, the veteran video game developer found himself facing a terrifying new reality: Becoming his child’s stand-in “pancreas,” ...

Intubation is a procedure that's used when you can't breathe on your own. Your doctor puts a tube down your throat and into your windpipe to make it easier to get air into and out of your lungs. A ...

Abstract: Intubation is a critical medical procedure for securing airway patency in patients, but the inconsistent skill levels among medical practitioners necessitate the advancement of better ...