According to the report, patients who are intubated by first responders often end up on a mechanical ventilator or in intensive care. The CPAP could provide a safer alternative for emergency oxygen ...

Continuous positive airway pressure could provide a less invasive treatment than intubation for oxygen deprivation, according to a Las Vegas Review Journal report. According to the report, studies by ...

The mask is brought slowly upward over the mouth and nose until full concentration of the ... are easily and pleasantly induced with nitrous oxide and oxygen or cyclopropane and oxygen anesthesia.

High concentrations of oxygen used during surgeries are a potential fire hazard for patients, but that doesn't mean the O2 gas itself catches fire. This week's Modern Healthcare cover story ...

An oxygen saturation of 95% or less at the time of induction of anesthesia (the end of preoxygenation) was recorded in 52 of 625 patients (8.3%) in the noninvasive-ventilation group and in 112 of ...

Anesthesia Miracle: No Power, No Oxygen Tanks, No Problem : Goats and Soda Frustrated by anesthesia machines that conked out when the power faltered, Dr. Paul Fenton came up with a solution: ...