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

As doctors on the front-line continue to fight the novel coronavirus, one thing is clear: there are not enough ventilators. Ventilators, according to Dr. Saud Anwar, are used to help COVID-19 patients ...

A device designed at the University of Pittsburgh could help improve outcomes as a treatment for COVID-19 when used in conjunction with non-invasive or mechanical ventilation, and it recently received ...

Timothy Foldy-Porto ’20 drew up the design for a ventilator-splitting device in 30 minutes. Now, almost a month after this first sketch, Foldy-Porto, Brian Beitler MED ’22 and Peter Kahn, a resident ...

For months, physicians around the world worried that the rise in COVID-19 cases would cause an international ventilator shortage as patients relied on machines to help them breathe. Health care ...

(Reuters) - A hospital in Connecticut has successfully employed a new 3D-printed device that makes it possible to modify one ventilator for use in two critically ill patients with COVID-19 who have ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – An innovative ventilator device has been developed by Prisma Health to assist more patients at one time. The FDA gave emergency use authorization of a “Y” splitter tubing to ...

A team from the University of Michigan has invented a device that allows multiple patients to safely use the same ventilator and has quickly made it available across the country with help from former ...

Eight years ago, a group of BYU engineering students started a project to create a neonatal ventilator for premature babies born in third-world countries. Today, several iterations later, that ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine researchers have invented a device that allows multiple patients to share a single ventilator, increasing the capacity to treat critically ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A trio of recent biomedical engineering graduates from the University of South Florida is receiving national recognition for inventing a device that could help solve a shortage of ...

GE Healthcare has recalled anesthesia delivery systems because of a risk that they may fail to provide effective ventilation when used in a specific mode, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.