Airway

The Emergency Room (sometimes Emergency Department or Emergency Room, hence the acronyms ED and ER) is an operating unit of hospitals expressly equipped to accommodate emergency cases, divide patients based on the seriousness of the…

Ventilation must be performed correctly, sufficient monitoring is necessary: the capnographer plays a precise role in this

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pulse oximeter (or saturation meter) was only widely used by ambulance teams, resuscitators and pulmonologists

If you’ve been interested in learning First Aid and how to perform CPR, you may probably come across the acronym BLS in your study

Ventilators are medical devices used to assist the breathing of patients in out-of-hospital care, intensive care units (ICUs), and hospital operating rooms (ORs)

Respiratory disease in early childhood linked to higher risk of death in adulthood. Contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood is associated with a higher risk of dying from respiratory disease as an adult, according…

Endotracheal suctioning is one of the most commonly performed interventions in the neonatal/pediatric intensive care unit and other emergency situations, but this practice requires special attention to the neonatal and paediatric airway

Intubation can make the difference between life and death. Doctors and nurses perform this procedure on patients who are unable to breathe on their own

Hypercapnia is an accumulation of carbon dioxide in the blood. It affects people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Bronchospasm refers to an unusual and excessive contraction of the smooth muscles that surround the bronchi and bronchioles