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, ...

DUBLIN, Ohio, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- N8 Medical, LLC (N8 Medical) today announced that Health Canada has granted Dr. John Muscedere of Kingston General Hospital's emergency request to begin ...

In the coronavirus pandemic, ventilators, the medical devices that help patients breathe, are highly sought after and hard to find – but they are not always successful. One in six COVID-19 patients ...

Among intensive care unit patients who require mechanical ventilation, use of a silver-coated endotracheal tube resulted in reduced incidence of pneumonia associated with ventilators, according to a ...

Endotracheal tubes (ETTs) are indispensable in the management of critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation. However, their use is invariably linked with ventilator-associated pneumonia ...

American Thoracic Society (2005) Infectious Diseases Society of America: Guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a major nosocomial infection that results in significant morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Most strategies to reduce VAP attempt to decrease rates ...

Ventilators are crucial in keeping severely-ill coronavirus patients alive — but hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of the life-saving medical device amid the ...

Petaluma biotech company Oculus Innovative Sciences has licensed the rights to a new medical device designed to prevent pneumonia in patients on breathing machines. Oculus acquired the endotracheal ...