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 coronavirus pandemic, ventilators, the medical devices that help patients breathe, are highly sought after and hard to find – but they are not always successful. One in six COVID-19 patients ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

Many people permanently on ventilators prefer to live at home as long as they can. But care there can be perilous and pricey.

The VentO₂ux ventilator supports critically ill respiratory patients and features a compact, lightweight design.

Ventilator information is transmitted to respiratory therapy supervisors, who can direct respiratory therapists to care for ventilated patients. Yale New Haven Health has launched an initiative to ...

Real-time monitoring of patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA) and respiratory parameters is important in patients with severe ...

A nationwide shortage of ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients has prompted governors to plead for more machines from the federal government as factories race to start building them. But ventilators ...

A new low-cost ventilator design invented during COVID-19 could address the global shortage of ventilators for other respiratory diseases. The ventilators, which are required by patients in intensive ...

SAN ANTONIO – So many hospitals around the country are worried about having enough ventilators to go around, but there’s also a shortage of people who are trained to work these critical machines. Dr.

Social media accounts have been sharing a post on a website called the People’s Voice entitled, “Official Report: Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients.” But this “Official Report” posting was ...