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A rigorous multicenter study from Japan utilizes marginal structural modeling to demonstrate that Ventilator-Associated Events (VAEs) are independent drivers of mortality, not just surrogates for patient severity, reinforcing their value as
The DANFLU-2 trial demonstrates that high-dose influenza vaccine provides superior protection against influenza-related hospitalizations in chronic kidney disease and reduces cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in older adults irrespective o
A randomized trial demonstrates that a smartphone app-based pulmonary rehabilitation program significantly improves quality of life and physical activity in patients with chronic respiratory diseases, offering a scalable alternative to trad
A 12-week randomized controlled trial reveals that smartphone-based pulmonary rehabilitation significantly improves quality of life and physical activity in patients with chronic respiratory diseases, offering a scalable and feasible altern
A randomized trial demonstrates that continuous erector spinae plane block provides comparable analgesia to opioid regimens after VATS, while significantly improving patient recovery scores and reducing postoperative complications.
The FDA has approved depemokimab (Exdensur), the first long-acting biologic for severe eosinophilic asthma. Requiring only two doses per year, it significantly reduces exacerbations and hospitalizations, offering a transformative shift in t
The DANFLU-2 trial found that while high-dose influenza vaccines significantly reduced influenza-specific hospitalizations in older adults, they did not reach statistical significance for the combined primary endpoint of influenza or pneumo
A 2025 Cochrane update (3 RCTs, 368 infants) finds very low- to low-certainty evidence that HFOV neither clearly reduces treatment failure nor pulmonary air leak and may increase mortality versus conventional ventilation in term/near‑term i
This review examines the safety and effectiveness of electronic cigarettes as aids to quit smoking, showing increased abstinence rates compared to traditional therapies and no significant serious adverse events reported.
Updated Cochrane review finds nicotine e-cigarettes increase smoking cessation success compared to NRT and non-nicotine e-cigarettes, with no clear difference in serious adverse events.
A pilot trial finds biofeedback and respiratory retraining equally effective for inducible laryngeal obstruction, offering clinicians flexible, patient-tailored options.
Recent high-quality studies challenge the presumed association between household air pollution from biomass cooking and severe infant pneumonia, highlighting inconsistent exposure-response relationships for PM2.5 and CO.
This review synthesizes evidence on a novel hybrid machine learning model leveraging US lung transplant registry data to predict mortality or retransplant risk at 1, 5, and 10 years, highlighting its clinical utility and balanced interpreta
Automated closed-loop ventilation improves ventilation quality but does not increase ventilator-free days at day 28 compared to protocolized conventional ventilation in critically ill adults, with benefits in safety profiles and caregiver w
High-fidelity digital twins of 98 ARDS patients indicate APRV (Phigh 25/Plow 0, long Tinsp, short Tlow to 75% peak expiratory flow) reduced mechanical power by ~32% and tidal recruitment by ~34% versus recorded PCV, at the cost of controlle
A large prospective Dutch cohort reports 36% five-year survival after ECMO with generally satisfactory health-related quality of life (median EQ-5D 0.82) but ongoing problems with pain, mobility, activities, and work capacity.
In a 497,185‑patient registry study, frailty (CFS ≥5) was common and associated with substantially higher in‑hospital mortality across all severities of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF). The relationship between PaO2/FiO2 and deat
The phase III PACIFIC-2 trial found that giving durvalumab from the start of definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy failed to improve progression-free or overall survival versus placebo; consolidation durvalumab after chemoradiotherapy rem
A 2007–2019 National Trauma Data Bank analysis found ARDS incidence among ventilated trauma patients fell substantially, yet ARDS remained independently associated with increased 30‑day mortality and crude ARDS mortality rose to nearly 30%.
Neonatal hydrocortisone treatment in preterm infants at high risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia does not improve school-age functional outcomes, highlighting the persistent burden of developmental impairment despite intervention.
