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 ...

Ventilation systems are most helpful when combined with other hospital airflow systems, such as HEPA air filtration, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), and other means of deactivating viruses, ...

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 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 ...

A study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, examined the use of an automated system to detect ventilator-associated events in real time. Researchers conducted a retrospective ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link New York is running out of ventilators. To address the shortage, doctors are getting creative. At Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, a team of ...