The American Journal of Managed Care

Long-term Noninvasive Ventilation, CPAP Use Up Among Children in France with Neuromuscular Diseases

This new report also shows the value of national databases tracking the use of ventilation support. A new study of French children with neuromuscular disorders (NMD) shows that long-term use of ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Researchers Modify Sleep Apnea Machines to Ease Ventilator Shortage

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 airway ...
MedPage Today

Helmet CPAP Leads Noninvasive Ventilation Therapies for Acute Respiratory Failure

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Forbes

Car Companies Are Making Ventilators, But Ventilator Companies, Hackers And CPAP Companies Are Working Harder

The treatment of last resort for Covid-19 victims with breathing problems is an invasive ventilator. It’s a horrible treatment, and only a fraction of those placed on it survive, but usually people ...
FierceBiotech

FDA dishes out Class I label to Philips' recall of faulty CPAP machines and other ventilators

A recall of Philips’ ventilators for at-home and clinical use was given the FDA’s most serious classification after the devices were found to put users at risk of inhaling or swallowing dangerous ...
TribLIVE.com

Philips issues voluntary recall for CPAP machines, ventilators

Medical equipment company Philips has issued a recall on some products to address possible health risks associated with a foam component meant to help reduce noise. The polyester-based polyurethane ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Philips CPAP, ventilator machine recalls leave patients unsure what to do

>> 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 ...
Popular Mechanics

We Can Avoid a Ventilator Shortage by Jailbreaking CPAP Machines

Due to a shortage of lifesaving breathing machines amid the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidelines last month that allow hospitals, universities ...
Los Angeles Times

These machines to help people breathe were recalled a year ago. Many still use them

In Rochester, N.Y., Diane Coleman has relied on a machine to help her stay alive, but she worries that it might be slowly undermining her health. Her ventilator was among millions of breathing devices ...
Forbes

Philips Recalls Up To 4 Million Ventilators And Breathing Machines, Including Some Listed As Respiratory Treatments For Covid-19

Philips on Monday announced that it will recall several ventilators and CPAP breathing machines after it discovered that a small foam component in the machines might degrade and be inhaled, a move ...
NPR

CPAP Machines Were Seen As Ventilator Alternatives, But Could Spread COVID-19

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 ...