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March 26, 2021
The surgery, called tracheotomy, is performed either in the operating room or at the bedside, depending on patient risk factors. The team analyzed 17 studies that included more than 3,000 patients.
March 12, 2021
The work and research of Dr. Alvaro Moreira, Pediatrics, contained within the site Medical Xpress, points to findings that an early tracheotomy will shorten ICU stays and lowers the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Read the story.
March 12, 2021
The work and research of Dr. Alvaro Moreira, Pediatrics, contained within the site News Medical Life Sciences, points to findings that an early tracheotomy will shorten ICU stays and lowers the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Read the story.
March 11, 2021
Windpipe procedure reduces mechanical ventilation time. Surgically opening the windpipe, or trachea, within the first seven days of the start of mechanical ventilation decreases the time patients spend on ventilators, shortens their ICU stay and lowers their risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a systematic review published Thursday (March 11) in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck […]
February 22, 2021
Dr. Diego Maselli, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, was interviewed for this San Antonio Express-News story about new studies that suggest asthmatics who contract COVID-19 will not have it longer or die at higher rates than the general population. Read the story.
February 1, 2021
Dr. Francisco Cigarroa’s opinion piece, celebrating 5,000 life-saving transplants at our University Transplant Center, was published in the Laredo Morning Times; while 2020 was a tragic year in which COVID-19 claimed the lives of so many, University Transplant Center pushed forward as generous organ donors made it possible to save lives through transplant surgery. Read […]