When the heat becomes unbearable and the power cuts won’t cooperate, air conditioners aren’t always an option. But there’s a ...

New research reveals that even the most advanced hospital ventilation systems can leave viral particles lingering in the air, ...

We’ve all heard the basic definition of ventilation: “the systematic removal or heat, smoke and fire gases from a structure” with the associated benefits of victim survivability, increased visibility, ...

Your attic’s ventilation could be the hidden hero (or villain) of your home’s comfort, energy bills, and roof health. Balanced airflow keeps temperatures steady, moisture at bay, and structural damage ...

The chief reason that patients are admitted to an intensive care unit is to receive ventilatory support. In this article, I update the basic principles of mechanical ventilation, which I reviewed in ...

The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, most of it from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. The best way to prevent the virus from spreading in a ...

At the end of the third year of the pandemic, we are no longer surprised to hear we’re in a new wave of infection. It’s fuelled by new sub-variants of the virus that may evade immunity from both ...

Compared with preoxygenation with an oxygen mask, preoxygenation with noninvasive ventilation led to a lower incidence of hypoxemia during emergency intubation among critically ill adults undergoing ...

I learned a great deal about firefighting and the fire service from my father, who joined the fire department in 1938 and retired as fire chief in 1975, the year after I started as a career ...