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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 ...

Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical care physicians are questioning the widespread use of the breathing machines for Covid-19 patients, ...

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 ...

Some jobs are a matter of life and death. For COVID-19 patients in intensive care, their lives depend on respiratory therapists such as Brenda Hanning, who works at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View ...

In Rochester, N.Y., Diane Coleman has relied on a machine to help her stay alive, but she worries that it might be slowly undermining her health. Her ventilator was among millions of breathing devices ...

The lifesaving breathing machines can just as easily be used on humans. The nation's hospitals, facing dire shortages of lifesaving ventilators as the coronavirus outbreak continues, are finding help ...

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 ...

New York's scramble to find enough breathing machines to treat its rapidly expanding legion of coronavirus patients illustrates a problem vexing hospitals and governments worldwide. In his nationally ...

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 ...

For three years, Donald Camp has used a breathing device to sleep. He has severe sleep apnea, so without this device, his breathing is obstructed and he gasps for air. But in June, Camp and many ...