News tagged with ventilator

Music therapy reduces anxiety, use of sedatives for patients receiving ventilator support

New research suggests that for some hospitalized ICU patients on mechanical ventilators, using headphones to listen to their favorite types of music could lower anxiety and reduce their need for sedative medications.

Psychology & Psychiatry 14 hours ago | not rated yet | 0 |

Early IV nutrition for certain patients does improve survival or reduce ICU length of stay

The early (within 24 hours of intensive care unit [ICU] admission) provision of intravenous nutrition among critically ill patients with contraindications (a condition that makes a particular procedure potentially inadvisable) ...

Health 14 hours ago | not rated yet | 0