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Respiratory distress trial settles issue of paralysing and sedating

A National Institutes of Health trial — stopped early due to futility — settles a long-standing debate in critical care medicine about whether it...

Bag-mask ventilation helps to save lives

Among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation, patients receiving bag-mask ventilation had higher oxygen saturations and a lower incidence of severe hypoxaemia, found the...