As the coronavirus pandemic rips through the U.S., governors have made public pleas for more personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care and frontline workers, and for ventilators to help ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As doctors face a shortage of ventilators that are crucial for treating coronavirus patients with ...

• CPAP machines, which are used by people with sleep apnea, have some superficial similarities with ventilators, raising the question of whether they could be adapted to ease the coronavirus-driven ...

New York City-based Northwell Health said it has developed a protocol to transform a BiPAP machine into a functional ventilator and that it plans to share the design online so other hospitals facing ...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In preparation for potential patient surge and shortage of critical mechanical ventilators for hospitalized COVID-19 patients, a Northwell Health physician, a ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have a potentially serious effect on your lungs. While some people can experience shortness of breath, others can develop pneumonia or a life-threatening ...

In a classic “two steps forward, one step back” situation, just as Philips is aiming to wrap up the repair-and-replace program for the 5.5 million respiratory devices it began recalling two years ago, ...

Philips sent updated instructions related to a problem with bilevel positive airway pressure, or BiPAP, machines that can cause interruption or loss of therapy. Philips recalled three models of BiPAP ...

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 ...