The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...
Former UFC star Ben Askren remains on a ventilator in the hospital as he battles a severe case of pneumonia, his wife Amy shared earlier this week on Facebook. Amy first announced in early June that ...
Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) is the most prevalent healthcare-associated infection, with 65% of HAPs occurring in non-ventilated patients as non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP).1 ...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is more common in small community hospitals than in medium and large community hospitals, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.