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 ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — As the number of COVID-19 cases in our country rise, supplies are dwindling. Medical professionals facing a shortage of ventilators in some areas of the country are turning to ...
As the coronavirus pandemic rips through the U.S., governors have made public pleas for more personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care and frontline workers, and for ventilators to help ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — If you have a CPAP or BiPAP machine that you no longer need there is a way to put it to good use during the COVID-19 pandemic. CPAP and BiPAP machines are generally used by ...
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 ...
(WKBN) – More than 17 million masks for BiPAP and CPAP machines have been recalled, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said that Philips Respironics (Philips) has recalled ...
• CPAP machines, which are used by people with sleep apnea, have some superficial similarities with ventilators, raising the question of whether they could be adapted to ease the coronavirus-driven ...
In a classic “two steps forward, one step back” situation, just as Philips is aiming to wrap up the repair-and-replace program for the 5.5 million respiratory devices it began recalling two years ago, ...