As the coronavirus crisis lit up this spring, headlines about how the US could innovate its way out of a pending ventilator shortage landed almost as hard and fast as the pandemic itself. Around the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ventilator, sometimes called a mechanical ventilator, is a machine that helps you breathe when you're sick, injured, or sedated for an operation. It pumps oxygen-rich air into your lungs. It also ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A high-pressure ventilator prototype developed by NASA engineers to help coronavirus patients was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, according to NASA. The approval is for use ...

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 ...