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 ...

With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

Officials have pointed to the anesthesia machines as a resource for hospitals. Anticipating ongoing shortages of ventilator machines as the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, states ...

As health authorities scramble to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, one device has become a symbol of hope and fear. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one ...

Due to a shortage of lifesaving breathing machines amid the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidelines last month that allow hospitals, universities ...

As COVID-19 pushes American hospitals to the breaking point, intensive care units are finding creative ways to deal with a looming shortage of lifesaving mechanical ventilators. New York-Presbyterian ...

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory ...

As hospital administrators and public health officials scramble to meet a shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients, teams of doctors, engineers, and DIYers are filling some gaps by modifying ...

To help ease ventilator shortages resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering were able to modify continuous positive airway ...

At least 431 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ventilators in government hospitals across Punjab are unfunctional, leaving critically ill patients at risk. Government record indicates that ventilator ...