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 ...

As COVID-19 pushes American hospitals to the breaking point, intensive care units are finding creative ways to deal with a looming shortage of lifesaving mechanical ventilators. New York-Presbyterian ...

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 ...

Although most of us would have vaguely heard of ventilators being an artificial breathing device used in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, not many of us have got an opportunity to actually ...

“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 ...

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 ...

At a media briefing Friday, President Donald Trump met with officials from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to view some equipment the agencies have designed that could be used in the ...

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 ...