Patients experiencing respiratory failure need help fast. One of the most common therapies involves use of positive pressure via a breathing tube and ventilator to push air into the lungs. “The ...

A new negative pressure ventilator which could provide additional treatment options for patients with respiratory failure, including those with COVID-19 - and whose design can be easily adapted to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel negative-pressure ventilator supported spontaneous ventilation in conscious, healthy adults and allowed ...

With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

New research suggests modern ventilators, which have been used frequently in recent years to treat COVID-19 patients, may cause lasting damage to the lungs. Researchers from the University of ...

Some patients with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exhibit clear contraindications to noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV); such contraindications include impending ...

Breakthrough research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung tissue. They do. These cutting-edge findings by UC Riverside ...