A mechanical ventilator is a device that pumps air into the lungs of a person with severe respiratory failure. The air in a ventilator often has a higher percentage of oxygen than room air. COVID-19 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the coronavirus pandemic, ventilators, the medical devices that help patients breathe, are highly sought after and hard to find – but they are not always successful. One in six COVID-19 patients ...

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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 device that supports or takes over the breathing process. People with severe COVID-19 symptoms may require a ventilator. Before COVID-19 became a pandemic, a need for ventilation was ...

Medtronic reversed course on spinning off several of its businesses, instead deciding to retain the bulk of the patient monitoring and respiratory interventions sectors it had initially announced ...

Bettina Lerman was on a ventilator for weeks after getting Covid-19 and hadn’t responded to doctors’ efforts to wake her from a coma when her family made the difficult decision to take her off of life ...

One North Georgia little girl remains in the hospital after a flu diagnosis. Her mother says 2-year-old Sarah lost movement ...