The family may have visited the ventilator-dependent patient frequently in the acute care setting and they may have observed or even participated in some of the bedside care, but before the ...

Nursing home ventilators could help hospitals amid coronavirus crisis The crush of COVID-19 patients is overwhelming the health care system.

Tweaking one setting on mechanical ventilators may help protect patients from lung injury By Darren Incorvaia Aug 22, 2024 12:32pm ventilator acute respiratory distress syndrome lungs Intensive Care ...

Those older workers, he notes, would be at high risk if infected. But there would be a role for quick courses in how to set up a particular model of ventilator and help the MD get the desired output.

Health care professionals who need training in ventilator use can now take a free online course created by edX and Harvard. “As the number of patients requiring critical care continues to grow ...

One man's cold call from Nevada to GM inspired the ultimate transformation of an assembly line. It's now pumping out a ventilator every 45 minutes.

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, and one piece of lifesaving medical equipment is in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who ...

It seems only natural that, in the rush to address the critical shortage of ventilators in the US due to the coronavirus pandemic, automakers would again be among the first to answer the call to help.

Take the Seattle-area-based Ventec. They're set up to make around 200 ventilators a month. They could maybe get that up to 1,000. But that's not going to be nearly enough.

Ventilators, though, are a whole new beast with a complexity similar to life support in a spaceship, though different enough that asking a car company to make one is like asking a ventilator ...

Once it is determined that a patient is ventilator-dependent, plans should begin to transition the patient from the ICU to an alternate setting.