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 ...

The treatment of last resort for Covid-19 victims with breathing problems is an invasive ventilator. It’s a horrible treatment, and only a fraction of those placed on it survive, but usually people ...

As hospital administrators and public health officials scramble to meet a shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients, teams of doctors, engineers, and DIYers are filling some gaps by modifying ...

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 ...

Breast pumps. Sleep apnea machines. Disposable devices. With ventilators in short supply, a do-it-yourself movement of sorts has sprung up with enterprising doctors and others repurposing machines or ...

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 ...

Philips has recalled some sleep apnea and ventilator machines over concerns about health risks. The company on Monday issued a recall for specific Philips Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure (Bi-Level ...

The new machine was funded after Rayleigh‑based New Leaf Distribution donated more than £30,000 to Mid and South Essex ...