With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

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 ...

As hospital administrators and public health officials scramble to meet a shortage of ventilators for Covid-19 patients, teams of doctors, engineers, and DIYers are filling some gaps by modifying ...

As COVID-19 pushes American hospitals to the breaking point, intensive care units are finding creative ways to deal with a looming shortage of lifesaving mechanical ventilators. New York-Presbyterian ...

To help ease ventilator shortages resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering were able to modify continuous positive airway ...

A global call for more ventilators has been issued owing to a chronic shortage induced by the COVID-19 crisis. A team of researchers at Auburn University is on it. The researchers are turning a CPAP ...

Breast pumps. Sleep apnea machines. Disposable devices. With ventilators in short supply, a do-it-yourself movement of sorts has sprung up with enterprising doctors and others repurposing machines or ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Severe respiratory infections, like pneumonia, the flu, or the coronavirus, can lead to trouble breathing, resulting in a drop in oxygen levels ...

• 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 ...

CPAP — continuous positive airway pressure — machines help people with sleep apnea breathe more regularly through the night. These machines are also sometimes used by first responders to help people ...