Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania have developed an interactive risk calculator to predict postoperative respiratory failure, defined as mechanical ventilation required ...

Postoperative respiratory compromise represents a significant health care burden in terms of increased morbidity and mortality along with increased length of hospital stay and cost of care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a guidance warning about the dangers of opioid-induced respiratory depression (“OIRD”) and required the following actions be taken: Timely ...

The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine has conducted the world's largest study on ...

The training did not, however, affect postoperative limb skeletal muscle weakness or exercise capacity. Preoperative respiratory muscle training (RMT) and aerobic exercise appear to lead to ...

The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether the addition of the structural and process elements necessary for an academic medical center to garner its initial Magnet designation is ...