Although mechanical ventilation is a life-saving intervention, it places significant stress and strain on the lung parenchyma. Damage at the pulmonary parenchymal and muscular levels from mechanical ...

A landmark lung study by a research network including UCSF that was hailed as a life-saving medical advance may actually have endangered patients and proved little, government scientists say. In a ...

February 26, 2007 (Orlando) -- New findings from the ongoing Fluid And Catheter Therapy Trial (FACTT) indicate that a pulmonary artery catheter has no survival advantages and no benefit for intensive ...

ROC curves illustrating the discriminative ability of the VR-specific 30-day mortality prediction models. (A–C) Performance of the high VR model in the ARDSnet training cohort (A), internal validation ...