STORY: This handheld device helps people with lung conditions breathe more easily. An actor is showing how it works. The smart device thumps on the chest to loosen excess mucus and uses artificial ...

2 Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S Matteo, Pavia, Italia 3 Intensive Care Unit and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Groupe Hospitalier ...

A cystic fibrosis vest is a therapeutic tool. When worn, it provides compressions similar to manual chest percussions. Wearing the vest can help loosen sticky secretions so that a person can more ...

Physio-Control, the Redmond defibrillator maker, has purchased Jolife AB for an undisclosed price. Jolife, which is privately held and based in Sweden, is the maker of the Lucas Chest Compression ...

The Physio-Control LUCAS® 3 Chest Compression System version 3.1 is an external mechanical device that delivers consistent automatic chest compressions with a minimum of interruptions during ...

Background and aims: PEP is a commonlyapplied modality of chest physiotherapy in infantswith chronic respiratory conditions such as cysticfibrosis. We report two cases of infants with acuteright upper ...

In research published this week in PLoS Medicine, Vincent Gajdos and colleagues report the results of a randomized trial conducted among hospitalized infants with bronchiolitis. The researchers ...

A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what ...