How anesthesia machines can help hospitals with ventilator shortages fight coronavirus Officials have pointed to the anesthesia machines as a resource for hospitals.

A ventilator helps patients who cannot properly breathe on their own by pumping air into their lungs through a tube that has been surgically inserted into their windpipes.

Breast pumps. Sleep apnea machines. Disposable devices. With ventilators in short supply, a do-it-yourself movement of sorts has sprung up with enterprising doctors and others repurposing machines ...

To help ease ventilator shortages resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering were able to modify continuous positive ...

New York-based hospital system Northwell Health figured out how to turn a BiPAP machine, used for sleep apnea, into a ventilator using a 3D printer and filter add-on.

• 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 ...

Kyle-Sidell and the Italian doctors both argue that it might be better to avoid putting Covid-19 patients on a ventilator for as long as possible, and use sleep apnea machines instead.

"Splitting the ventilator," connecting two patients to one ventilation machine, is a feasible option in emergency situations during the COVID-19 crisis, especially in situations of shortage of ...

Doctors say the machine that helps some people with sleep apnea keep their airway open at night won't be enough to help an ill COVID-19 patient breathe and could spread the coronavirus to bystanders.

Key takeaways: Ventilators may unintentionally harm patients; research is lacking in children. A new study will test how well machine learning algorithms can recognize breathing asynchronies in ...