• CPAP machines, which are used by people with sleep apnea, have some superficial similarities with ventilators, raising the question of whether they could be adapted to ease the coronavirus-driven ...

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 ...

Watching the hardware community respond to the global pandemic is a fascinating process, because of the breadth of projects being considered, and also because of the differing experiences and ...

In a classic “two steps forward, one step back” situation, just as Philips is aiming to wrap up the repair-and-replace program for the 5.5 million respiratory devices it began recalling two years ago, ...

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 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 ...

Last month, Philips issued a huge recall of ventilators and continuous positive airway pressure machines, leaving millions of people with sleep apnea unsure of how they'll get a good night's sleep.