A UCLA student is developing a low-cost ventilator to help fight COVID-19. Graduate student Glen Meyerowitz saw the need for ventilators across the country and knew he could create a dramatically ...
Ventilators are crucial in keeping severely-ill coronavirus patients alive — but hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of the life-saving medical device amid the ...
An unfortunate truth about the use of mechanical ventilation to save the lives of patients in respiratory distress is that the pressure used to inflate the lungs is likely to cause further lung damage ...
A device designed at the University of Pittsburgh could help improve outcomes as a treatment for COVID-19 when used in conjunction with non-invasive or mechanical ventilation, and it recently received ...
Tesla is among a group of automakers retooling facilities to build ventilators for the COVID-19 crisis. In the following video, the company provides a behind-the-scene look at its ventilator design ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...
Less-invasive ventilators use a mask rather than a tube inserted into the patient's throat. Image Credit: Juanmonino, iStock Share On March 20, as severe cases of COVID-19 spiked in northern Italy, ...
FARGO — A new company now calls the North Dakota State University Research and Technology Park home as CorVent Medical commenced operations Tuesday, Jan. 11. The ventilator design and manufacturing ...