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 ...

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 ...

In a large randomized trial, treating patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure with high-flow oxygen didn't improve survival compared with standard oxygen. However, high-flow oxygen did ...

Use of high-flow oxygen was associated with less of a need for mechanical ventilation and a shorter time to recovery compared with conventional oxygen therapy in patients with severe COVID-19, a ...

Study finds that high-flow nasal oxygen therapy is as effective as traditional noninvasive ventilation and a better alternative (1 Trusted Source High-Flow Nasal Oxygen vs Noninvasive Ventilation in ...

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 ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND: Conflicting recommendations exist on whether high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) oxygen therapy should be administered to adult patients in critical care with acute hypoxemic respiratory ...

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 ...