The value of pressure sensing in medical equipment was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discover how new tools are revolutionizing the field.

Ear barotrauma or 'airplane ear' - travellers ... life-threatening' if 'part of the clot breaks off and travels to the lungs', causing a pulmonary embolism. Passengers should try to move around ...

This phenomenon, known as barotrauma, causes their lungs to collapse, killing them instantly,” he points out. These two mechanisms – collisions and barotrauma – are devastating and frequent: in the ...

In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...

Post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, which involves scarring of the lungs that can worsen over time and may require a lung ...

Researchers have uncovered changes in the cellular response throughout lung damage caused by SARS-CoV-2—the virus behind ...

Mechanical ventilators save lives, but they may also be causing hidden damage. A groundbreaking study reveals that the ...

Cigarette smoking is by far the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, data shows — but in a surprising turn of events, the most common form of the disease is primarily found in non-smokers.

Mar. 12, 2025 — A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 ...

A new study sheds light on ventilator-induced lung injury, a complication that gained increased attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a surge in patients requiring mechanical ...

A new study from Tulane University suggests that repeated collapse and reopening of tiny alveoli-air sacs in the lungs essential for breathing-during mechanical ventilation may cause microscopic ...