A team of researchers from the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA has developed a positive pressure ventilator, a variant of mechanical ventilator. Presenting the prototype to the university ...

The Super Vac VR3 is a variable speed, electric, positive pressure fan evolved from the popular VR2 model. The VR3 is the only variable speed fan in the industry that will run on any 15 amp GFCI ...

Voices of the Pandemic features people in the Seattle area on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak. Scott Mahoney is a respiratory therapist, in a Seattle area hospital. Part of his job is to ...

The authors argue that physicians need a new playbook for when to use ventilators for Covid-19 patients — a message consistent with new treatment guidelines issued Tuesday by the National Institutes ...

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 ...

A mechanical ventilator is a device that pumps air into the lungs of a person with severe respiratory failure. The air in a ventilator often has a higher percentage of oxygen than room air. COVID-19 ...

A new negative pressure ventilator which could provide additional treatment options for patients with respiratory failure, including those with COVID-19 - and whose design can be easily adapted to ...

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, ...

Ventilators have possibly never been as central to public discourse as they have been during the COVID-19 pandemic. First it was the grave shortage of the device in Italy, where doctors were left to ...