A ventilator is a machine that helps you breathe or takes breaths for you. It can be a lifesaver if you have a health condition that causes you to struggle to get air. You may know about the type of ...

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The protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Board of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada. Written informed consent was obtained from a parent or guardian. Infants were eligible for ...

Less-invasive ventilators use a mask rather than a tube inserted into the patient's throat. Image Credit: Juanmonino, iStock Share On March 20, as severe cases of COVID-19 spiked in northern Italy, ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, and one piece of lifesaving medical equipment is in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who ...

We need more ventilators. COVID-19 attacks the lungs; ventilators help you breathe when you’re no longer able to do so on your own. There are around a hundred and seventy thousand ventilators in the ...

It breaks my heart that patients who will get sick enough to need them won’t know what desperate situations they face. By Kathryn Dreger Dr. Dreger is a doctor of internal medicine in Northern ...

In a great example of what can happen when smart, technically-oriented people come together in a time of need, an open-source hardware project started by a group including Irish entrepreneur Colin ...

To keep coronavirus patients breathing, hospitals are pioneering a little-tested method. By Brian M. RosenthalJennifer Pinkowski and Joseph Goldstein A New York hospital system has begun treating two ...

Ventilators are the go-to way physicians treat serious cases of COVID-19, but some patients at Wellington Regional Medical Center in Florida started refusing breathing tubes a couple of weeks ago.