(TNS) - In the coming weeks, difficult decisions about who will live and who will die in Alabama may hinge on a little-discussed document outlining the state’s suggested “criteria for mechanical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health officials continue to recommend masks, social distancing and good hygiene as the number of COVID-19 patients increases at both Avera St. Luke’s Hospital and Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center.

Frank and Leslie Cutitta stand outside their home in Wayland, Massachusetts, where a banner still hangs for his return from the hospital. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Insight provides an in-depth look at health ...

A research group at Yale has successfully developed a new system for splitting a single ventilator among several patients. The system, called Pressure Regulated Ventilator Splitting or PReVentS, was ...