Ventilators can assist with lung function for those with severe respiratory infections, and it's often necessary in the ICU.

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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The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

Ventilators are crucial in keeping severely-ill coronavirus patients alive — but hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of the life-saving medical device amid the ...

When a hospital patient has a breathing problem, the services of a respiratory therapist are needed. Recently we had a visitor who has that position, and after all the news during COVID about people ...

CPAP machines help people with trouble breathing, but they aren't made to replace ventilators. Here's how they compare.

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The rapid spread of coronavirus has sent states scrambling to buy ventilators to prepare for a coming apex of cases. But ventilators do not operate on their own. And while the ventilator shortage ...

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.