Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As doctors face a shortage of ventilators that are crucial for treating coronavirus patients with ...

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 ...

The term “life support” refers to any combination of machines and medication that keeps a person’s body alive when their organs would otherwise stop working. Usually people use the words life support ...

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 ...

In less than a month, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories converted 100 respiratory machines New Mexico hospitals had on hand into machines that can safely be used as ventilators to treat ...

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory ...