Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have a potentially serious effect on your lungs. While some people can experience shortness of breath, others can develop pneumonia or a life-threatening ...

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 ...

I don’t want to be intubated. That was my main thought a few weeks ago as I lay in bed at home, having trouble breathing and watching my pulse oximeter show that my blood oxygen was under 93% when it ...

>> IT'S A HEALTH RISK. BEN: LIKE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, MICHAEL CROSTA IS FACING A CONUNDRUM, OVER S HIPHILIPS C-PAP MACHINE LIKE THIS ONE, WHICH HELPS HIM KEEP BREATNGHI AND SLEEP SOUNDLY DESPITE HIS ...

In a Nov. 28 safety alert, the FDA warned patients and healthcare providers to carefully monitor Philips machines used for obstructive sleep apnea after receiving reports that the machines have shown ...

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory ...

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) -Around 20 different models of ventilators, CPAP and BiPAP machines made by Philips were recalled in June because a foam inside them can break down into pieces while in use ...

Blount Memorial Hospital has three new hospital-grade BiPAP machines that can be converted into ventilators — bringing the total number of equipment qualifying as ventilators to 40, officials said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded Thursday to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that the company had delivered more than 1,000 ventilators to the state’s hospitals treating a surge of coronavirus ...

A new treatment breakthrough at University of Utah Health is bringing relief to children with Down syndrome and sleep apnea. Families are finding new hope as kids breathe—and sleep—more easily.

Dr. Chelsea Kadish and Kyle Goodknight explain why EMS providers who consider prehospital pediatric CPAP too aggressive should embrace the modality as safe and effective for even the youngest patients ...