Being on a ventilator can be dangerous for a patient, even when the ventilation pressure is appropriate. Ventilators are associated with a number of complications which lead medical practitioners to avoid using them whenever possible, and to keep sessions on a ventilator brief. Patients must also ...
The procedure is often used in emergency medicine when a patient is having difficulty breathing, and it is also used during surgery to keep the airway open for the delivery of anesthetic drugs and oxygen. In addition, patients on mechanical ventilators will be intubated so that the ventilator ...
In both of these instances the airways can collapse in on themselves, making breathing labored and difficult. BiPAP ventilators are typically considered “non-invasive” to the extent that they don’t actually interfere with the body’s internal workings, though patients often find that they can ...
Bymsingh— On Feb 21, 2010 I am diagnosed as a Musk Myasthenia patient. I had an attack in July 2006 and had to undergo plasmapheresis. I have been taking Cellcept for more than three years. I was told my thymus gland is OK. What is the cause of this disease and how long will I...
bleeding, and to confirm the presence of opportunistic microorganisms, such as fungi, in patients withimmune systemproblems. It is also indicated in patients on ventilators, or breathing machines, who are suspected of suffering frompneumonia, a condition characterized byinflammationof the lung tissues....
"I just spent 13 hours with eight patients on ventilators. By the end of my shift, there were only five."
ByPippinwhite— On Apr 21, 2014 @Lostnfound -- Makes me grateful polio immunization is so common, and that an effective vaccine was developed for it. I don't think I've ever seen anyone who was afflicted with paralytic polio, except for President Franklin Roosevelt. I don't think I've...
When possible, a surgical procedure called a thymectomy removes the thymus gland. This is by far the most effective treatment for myasthenia gravis, with 70% of patients having complete remission of symptoms. Since this option does not completely eliminate the illness in some, continued research by...
ByStarJo— On Jul 23, 2011 My cousin developed hypercapnia due to his COPD, which was caused by years of smoking. Breathing all that cigarette smoke had irritated his air passages and destroyed the lung’s stretchy fibers. With his hypercapnia, he had muscle twitches, fatigue, confusion, an...
though. Even with the best of care and treatment, you're going to lose patients -- and a fair number of them. It takes a special kind of heart to be a NICU nurse. It's kind of like nursing in pediatric oncology. You have to hang on to hope, especially when it doesn't look lik...