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 ...

Mechanical ventilation, the use of a machine to help a person breathe, was not something many people thought about all that often—until the COVID pandemic struck. Stories of patients being put on ...

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ventilators are breathing machines that force air into a patient’s lungs. UAB medical professionals explained how the machines work and why you don’t want to need one. “First, we ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can have a potentially serious effect on your lungs. While some people can experience shortness of breath, others can develop pneumonia or a life-threatening ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PRAGUE (AP) — Tomas Kapler knew nothing ...