A ventilator is a machine that helps you breathe or takes breaths for you. It can be a lifesaver if you have a health condition that causes you to struggle to get air. You may know about the type of ...

When it relaxes, it returns to its default dome-like shape, pushing air back out. In a conventional external ventilator, air is forced into the lungs via a mask or tracheostomy (a hole in the neck, ...

Vapotherm, Inc., a leader in advanced respiratory support technologies, today announced a strategic partnership with Flight Medical Innovations Ltd. to bring the newly cleared VentO2ux(TM) ventilator ...

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 ...

Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers ...

The VentO₂ux ventilator supports critically ill respiratory patients and features a compact, lightweight design.

Breakthrough research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung tissue. They do. These cutting-edge findings by UC Riverside ...

Air-borne germs are neutralized quickly after exhalation, lowering infection risk by over 80%. In A Nutshell Canadian researchers designed an air-cleaning device that captured about 94% of exhaled ...

Among critically ill adults receiving invasive mechanical ventilation, early use of an automated closed-loop ventilation system did not increase ventilator-free days at day 28 compared with ...

The Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden and the TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine has conducted the world's largest study on ...