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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ventilators may unintentionally harm patients; research is lacking in children. A new study will test how well ...

LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2023) — Critically ill children on ventilator support can experience a mismatch between their breathing efforts and the rhythm delivered by the ventilator. This mismatch, called ...

Last month, Philips issued a huge recall of ventilators and continuous positive airway pressure machines, leaving millions of people with sleep apnea unsure of how they'll get a good night's sleep.

Philips has recalled some sleep apnea and ventilator machines over concerns about health risks. The company on Monday issued a recall for specific Philips Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure (Bi-Level ...

Could Your CPAP Machine Be Putting You at Risk of Cancer? Millions of Philips sleep apnea machines and ventilators are being recalled for an alarming reason: a potential risk of cancer or other health ...

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who ...

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 ...

>> IT'S A HEALTH RISK. BEN: LIKE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, MICHAEL CROSTA IS FACING A CONUNDRUM, OVER S HIPHILIPS C-PAP MACHINE LIKE THIS ONE, WHICH HELPS HIM KEEP BREATNGHI AND SLEEP SOUNDLY DESPITE HIS ...