Ventilators

UC San Diego Health has provided mobile life support systems to multiple COVID-19 patients in the last three weeks, officials announced Tuesday, giving a chance to patients so ill that ventilators alone cannot keep them alive.

Hospitals across the United States are facing financial ruin.

As coronavirus spreads across rural America, many struggling hospitals are seeing a massive loss of revenue after they were forced to cancel profitable elective procedures.

The parents of a 12-year-old girl from the New Orleans area are overjoyed that their daughter has recovered from a near-death coronavirus infection.

President Donald Trump falsely claimed that his administration was not initially able to meet the increasing demand for ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients because “we weren’t left ventilators by a previous administration.” We can’t say for sure how many ventilators there were in the Strategic National Stockpile when Trump took office, but there were likely thousands. A 2017 article published by...

Senior British doctors have warned that 250 ventilators the United Kingdom bought from China risk causing “significant patient harm, including death,” if they are used in hospitals, according to a letter seen by NBC News.

Estate attorneys are getting requests, and proposing to clients, that living wills be altered because of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly one section.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a new high-pressure ventilator that is tailored for COVID-19 patients. The ventilator, codenamed VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), passed a critical test on Tuesday at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York. With a high demand of traditional ventilators and short supply worldwide, NASA engineers hope to introduce...

General Electric and Ford Motor will produce 50,000 ventilators for the U.S. government under the Defense Production Act for $336 million, federal officials announced Thursday.

San Diego’s Cubic Corp. is trying to develop a ventilator from an existing defense product that features an air pump. The company is testing it out, hoping they can turn it into a tool to help the sick during the coronavirus pandemic.

UCLA Biodesign Fellow Glen Meyerowitz built the device in a few hours and is hoping it can serve as a proof-of-concept for a low-cost ventilator that could help hospitals with ventilator shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 100 COVID-19 patients in San Diego County are being treated at Intensive Care Units (ICU) and many of them are on ventilators. Among those responsible for running the machines are respiratory therapists. The coronavirus outbreak has made the job especially challenging. “As a front care worker, I have to not only worry about transmitting this disease to other...

Respiratory therapists are working closely with COVID-19 patients to run ventilators. NBC 7’s Ramon Galindo has more.

With the federal stockpile drained of protective gear, states are turning to each other, private industries and anyone who can donate in a desperate bid to get respirators, gloves and other supplies to doctors, nurses and other front-line workers.

Health officials around the world are pushing to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, but some doctors actually are moving away from using the machines.

A group of engineers in Maryland says breast pumps — machines many moms have at home — could be a game-changer in saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic. “This has been really exciting for me,” engineer Rachel Labatt said. Labatt, Brandi and Grant Gerstner, Alex Scott and Director Tommy Luginbill are a team of engineers from southern Maryland. They say…

As hospitals get busier with more coronavirus patients, a Chicago doctor is sharing his story to warn people who aren’t taking the pandemic seriously.

A professor at San Diego State University has designed a ventilator that he believes could be mass-produced at low cost and used in hospitals across America to treat COVD-19 patients. SDSU assistant Mechanical Engineering professor Kevin Wood started designing a ventilator after the government put out the urgent call for more. But his expertise is designing next-generation batteries – not…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Chinese government is facilitating a shipment of 1,000 donated ventilators to his state

Some states and cities that have been shipped masks, gloves, ventilators and other essential equipment from the nation’s medical stockpile to fight the coronavirus have gotten an unwelcome surprise: the material is unusable.

Federal Emergency Management Agency officials told members of Congress earlier this week that the projected demand for ventilators required for coronavirus-stricken patients “outstrips the capacity” of the Strategic National Stockpile, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday.