Treatment must be aggressive since the disease can progress quickly and can be fatal. ACS treatment may include pain control, intravenous (IV) fluids if dehydration is suspected, antibiotics to treat ...

Lungpacer Medical Inc., a medical technology company focused on neurostimulation therapies for critically ill patients, announced results from DONATE, a study in 50 organ donors showing that temporary ...

Dyspnea, elevated troponin, and right heart strain can signal pulmonary embolism even when chest pain is absent, making ...

Objective: To analyze the radiological aspects of pulmonary atelectasis in newborns on mechanical ventilation and treated in an intensive care unit, associating the characteristics of atelectasis with ...

WASHINGTON – The Detroit Pistons will be without their superstar for at least two weeks. Guard Cade Cunningham has suffered a left lung pneumothorax, more commonly known as a lung collapse. He exited ...

A critically ill 33-year-old man survived an almost unimaginable scenario—living for 48 hours without lungs—thanks to a groundbreaking surgical approach. After a severe flu-triggered infection ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...

Humans can’t live without lungs. And yet for 48 hours, in a surgical suite at Northwestern University, a 33-year-old man lived with an empty cavity in his chest where his lungs used to be. He was kept ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient's infected lungs and built "artificial lungs" ...