Whereas a normal ventilation system leaves the distal end of the non-dependent lung tube open to room air, Liang and colleagues decided to place their homemade valve over that end. On exhalation ...

In the primary analysis of 31 patients in Study 1, results showed that the mean within-patient difference in the predicted postoperative percentage of remaining lung ventilation between Xenoview ...

Mechanical Ventilation Strategies in Children With Acute Lung Injury ... 10–19, 20–29, 30–39, 40–49, and greater than or equal to 50. All other questions were open-ended.

Source Reference: Khemani RG, et al "Randomized trial of lung and diaphragm protective ventilation in children" NEJM Evid 2025; DOI: 10.1056/EVIDoa2400360. Secondary Source. NEJM Evidence.

The FDA has approved xenon Xe 129 hyperpolarized, or Xenoview, to use along with MRI to analyze lung ventilation among adults and children aged 12 years and older, according to a manufacturer ...

Supporting lung transplants. In a separate study reported in JHLT Open, Thelwall and colleagues used dynamic 19 F-MRI of inhaled perfluoropropane to visualize the function of transplanted lungs.

It pumps oxygen-rich air into your lungs. It also helps you breathe out carbon dioxide, a harmful waste gas your body needs to get rid of. Even while they help you breathe, ventilators sometimes ...

With the passing of iron lung patient Paul Alexander, a look back at how the device paved the way for subsequent life-saving medical innovations. Long before the polio vaccine, there was the iron ...

Negative pressure ventilation has also been used to help treat problems like COPD and certain disorders that affect muscles. ... Iron lung. You lie down in this cylinder-shaped, ...

ROCKVILLE, MD – Many premature infants need mechanical ventilation to breathe. However, prolonged ventilation can lead to problems like respiratory diseases or ventilation-induced injury.