Researchers built validated statistical models showing that respiratory support data at 36 and 44 weeks post-menstrual age ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Representatives from over 30 states told us they haven’t had or are not aware of any COVID-19 patients in their state needing a ventilator and not getting one. Many states are reporting excess ...

The Spiro Wave is essentially a robot that operates the type of manual breathing balloon you may have seen EMTs use in the field. The hospital ventilator sits at an intersection: It’s complicated, ...

This ventilator may not look like an important piece of medical equipment but it may be one of the critical things keeping Covid-19 patients alive. MIT has designed an emergency ventilator that uses ...

The focus is not on "eliminating PVA," but rather on ensuring that "the patient's inspiratory effort is within an appropriate ...

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For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model ...

You have been breathing your whole life without thinking about it. But imagine if a machine — a mechanical ventilator — muscled its way into that delicate, unconscious dance. It is trying to help, but ...