With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

Officials have pointed to the anesthesia machines as a resource for hospitals. Anticipating ongoing shortages of ventilator machines as the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, states ...

LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2023) — Critically ill children on ventilator support can experience a mismatch between their breathing efforts and the rhythm delivered by the ventilator. This mismatch, called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ventilators may unintentionally harm patients; research is lacking in children. A new study will test how well ...

To help ease ventilator shortages resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering were able to modify continuous positive airway ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

“In the event of a severe influenza pandemic, the need for life-saving mechanical ventilation will far outstrip the ability to provide it.” That foreboding opening line, clipped from a paper published ...

A global call for more ventilators has been issued owing to a chronic shortage induced by the COVID-19 crisis. A team of researchers at Auburn University is on it. The researchers are turning a CPAP ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The CPAP and BIPAP machine collection was a success. Back in April, the Nueces County Public Health District and Del Mar College joined forces to hold a collection campaign.