Ventilators
Philips recalls ventilators, sleep apnea machines due to health risks
Dutch medical equipment company Philips (PHG.AS) has recalled some breathing devices and ventilators because of a foam part that might degrade and become toxic, potentially causing cancer, it said on Monday. Foam used to dampen the machines’ sound can degrade and emit small particles that irritate airways, the group said as it announced the recall. …
Fauci ; vaccine could be out early; steroids; ventilators
CLOSE Approving a vaccine in the U.S. usually takes years, but COVID-19 vaccines are moving through in record time. What does that mean? USA TODAY Clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine can be legitimately cut short and could allow a vaccine to become available more quickly than previously expected if results are overwhelming, Dr. Anthony …
Elderly covid-19 patients on ventilators usually do not survive, New York hospitals report
The high mortality rate, especially among elderly patients with some underlying disease, stunned Max O’Donnell, the senior author of the study and a pulmonologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. “We had no idea how horrific this would be,” he said. “Definitely not just the flu.” The research focused on 257 critically ill adults, representing …
Nearly all Covid-19 patients put on ventilators in New York’s largest health system died, study finds
Correction: After this story published, the study’s authors updated data in the JAMA report about the rate of deaths among Covid-19 patients on ventilators. The headline and story have been updated to reflect the corrected data. It found that, overall, about 20% of Covid-19 patients treated at Northwell Health died, and 25% of those placed …
Trinity Health Care of New England to Furlough Employees, Cut Executive Pay, Add Clinical Staff – NBC Connecticut
Trinity Health Care of New England, which has several hospitals in Connecticut, said it is furloughing some employees, adding clinical staff and cutting pay for executives because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are working tirelessly to prepare and respond to COVID-19, both in the immediate term and over the weeks and months to come. …
The Health 202: At least half of covid-19 patients on ventilators don’t make it
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Ford Joins Effort to Make Ventilators
This briefing is no longer updating. Read the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak here. Ford Motor and General Electric will produce 50,000 ventilators. Ford Motor and General Electric’s health care division said on Monday that they together planned to produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days to help meet the needs of hospitals …
From vacuum cleaners to ventilators – can Dyson make the leap? | Technology
Since the engineering firm Dyson unveiled a prototype ventilator that it said could help arm the NHS for a surge in Covid-19 patients, there has been scepticism about its role. The billionaire entrepreneur Sir James Dyson is better known for his bagless vacuum cleaners, his backing for Brexit and more recently an attempt to build …
Ford working with 3M and GE to make respirators and ventilators
Healthcare workers around the country have expressed concern about difficulties in attaining enough critical supplies, such as masks, gloves and ventilators, to deal with the influx of patients suffering from the highly contagious virus. Ford said it will work with 3M (MMM) to produce a new kind of Powered Air-Purifying Respirator for healthcare workers, while …
Ford, GM and Tesla may make ventilators to combat coronavirus
A shortage of ventilators has become a growing concern as the number of reported infections increase across the United States. In the most serious cases, coronavirus patients lose the ability to breathe on their own and require a ventilator, which pumps air in and out of the lungs. “As America’s largest producer of vehicles and …
