Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:09:04 GMT — A new device that will help patients breathe better before they get to the hospital is being used in Grand Traverse County. Blair Township Fire and EMS is now training ...

CorVent Medical, Inc., an innovative medtech company applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve outcomes for critically ill, ventilated patients, today announced the ...

Case Western Reserve University lab reports 84% accuracy in predicting from initial chest scan which patients will need breathing help; planning website for UH, Cleveland VA physicians to upload scans ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — When a disease causes a patient’s lungs to fail, a ventilator is often used to take over the body’s breathing process. The air flows through a tube that goes in the patient’s ...

As the number of patients requiring ventilatory assistance to survive COVID-19 rises, and with no new ventilators in sight, a "Hail Mary" technique is starting to be used. Can a machine designed to ...

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 ...

Emergency departments have developed strategies to handle coronavirus patient surges such as addressing limited space in their facilities. Emergency department management and clinical care practices ...

Everyone who 'needs' a ventilator will not get one. When there are two patients and one ventilator, the one with the greatest survival chance should get the ventilator first. Dr. John La Puma and 16 ...

Patients placed on mechanical ventilation are commonly put under deep sedation, to ease the stress and discomfort of having a ...

Joseph O. Jacobson ([email protected]) is the chief quality officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts.