Everyone who 'needs' a ventilator will not get one. When there are two patients and one ventilator, the one with the greatest survival chance should get the ventilator first. Dr. John La Puma and 16 ...

A ventilator is a device that supports or takes over the breathing process. People with severe COVID-19 symptoms may require a ventilator. Before COVID-19 became a pandemic, a need for ventilation was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Public officials have warned that there are not enough ventilators -- life-saving devices using in hospital ICUs -- to treat the rapidly rising number of people who are becoming ...

COVID-19 is stretching health care resources in many different ways, but there’s a key piece of equipment getting a lot of attention: ventilators. So, what is a ventilator, and why does it matter?

This week, NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally released an open-source design for a low-cost, easy-to-assemble ventilator that he believes could be used to treat patients with COVID-19. Dally developed ...

Doctors and nurses on the front line of the fight against COVID-19 know how critical ventilators are. This past Sunday on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley spoke with health care workers at New ...