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 ...

Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical care physicians are questioning the widespread use of the breathing machines for 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, ...

Mindray today announced its entry into the U.S. ventilator market, launching its SV900 and SV700 ventilator systems.

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 ...

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 ...

The rapid spread of coronavirus has sent states scrambling to buy ventilators to prepare for a coming apex of cases. But ventilators do not operate on their own. And while the ventilator shortage ...

With a surge of coronavirus patients expected to hit Indiana hospitals this month and into mid-May, the equipment required to treat patients is more important than ever. One of the main pieces of ...

At hospitals facing a flood of people infected with the new coronavirus and a shortage of equipment to treat them, an unspoken question looms over every medical interaction: Will this COVID-19 patient ...

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 ...

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 ...