A self-assembled “skunk works” team has worked tirelessly to prototype a simple ventilator design for quick and easy assembly from available parts. A self-assembled “skunk works” team at Lawrence ...

As hospitals in New York City and beyond are facing a shortage of mechanical ventilators for COVID-19 patients in critical care, many are turning to readily available CPAP and BiPAP machines as a ...

A global team of physicists, engineers and medics have published the design of a low-cost, simple ventilator that they are readying for mass production — now. The main cause of death from COVID-19 is ...

Of the shelf: 3D drawing of the MVM control unit. The base plate is 152 x 170 mm. (Courtesy: C Galbiati et al) Members of the DarkSide experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy have ...

The Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM) under construction. The MVM is the result of an effort across a particle physics community spanning nine countries. On March 25 a channel called “Mechanical ...

A simple, low-cost ventilator based on the resuscitation bags carried in ambulances - and widely available in hospitals - has been designed by an international team of university researchers. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surveillance of ventilator-associated conditions and infection-related, ventilator-associated complications was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

Most of us had never given much thought to what a ventilator does before the COVID-19 pandemic. Or maybe you’d only encountered that uncomfortable feeling of having a tube down your throat during ...

In just six weeks, from March 19 to May 1, an international team of physicists and engineers led by Princeton’s Cristian Galbiati brought a ventilator from concept to FDA approval. The U.S. Food and ...