Sloppy supervision, a muted alarm, and lack of training led to the suffocation death of a severely paralyzed patient at San Diego's Veterans Administration hospital last year when an alarm failed to ...

Philips Respironics, Inc. has issued updated instructions for the use of its OmniLab Advanced+ (OLA+) Ventilator because of its demonstrated failure in the ventilator inoperative alarm that can cause ...

Sheriff’s Detective Matt Fenske testifies about a breathing machine Friday in the trial of two women accused to killing Solvang ALS patient Heidi Good. To get a better view of what the deputy was ...

A mother in Florida is going viral on social media for her critical invention when her son's ventilator alarm went off. Nicole Orchard, 28, shared footage online of the unpredictable and exhausting ...

For the second time in a year, the state has faulted the same St. Paul nursing home for failing to respond in a timely manner to the ventilator alarm of a resident who died. According to a report made ...

ST. PAUL — For the second time in a year, the state has faulted the same St. Paul nursing home for failing to respond in a timely manner to the ventilator alarm of a resident who died. According to a ...

A ventilator leak at a Minnesota nursing home led to a resident’s death last year, causing the facility to become more aggressive in monitoring, a new report finds. In the August incident, the ...

Medtronic is notifying customers in 80 countries of a "voluntary field corrective action" involving all its Newport HT70 and HT70 Plus ventilators. The action was prompted by reports that the ...

> Ventilator alarm errors were linked to 119 patient deaths between 2005 and May 2011, according to an analysis of federal safety reports by The Boston Globe. As a another source of alarm fatigue, 27 ...