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 ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As doctors face a shortage of ventilators that are crucial for treating coronavirus patients with ...

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory ...

The term “life support” refers to any combination of machines and medication that keeps a person’s body alive when their organs would otherwise stop working. Usually people use the words life support ...

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 ...

CPAP — continuous positive airway pressure — machines help people with sleep apnea breathe more regularly through the night. These machines are also sometimes used by first responders to help people ...

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 ...

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Imagine printing a three-dimensional piece of plastic that could help save a coronavirus patient’s life. 3-D printing is one solution proposed to address an expected shortage of ...