The FDA updated guidelines on the use of ventilator tubing connectors, or ventilator splitters, based on a recent literature review in a Feb. 9 letter.

Investigators found that a ventilator alarm rang for 5 to 10 minutes before a licensed nurse found the resident was dead and the tubing to the ventilator machine had disconnected, according to a ...

ST. PAUL - When a St. Paul nursing home resident's ventilator tube became detached and sounded an alarm during a worship service at the facility last summer, there weren't any nursing staff around ...

Kassab and staff delivered 16 ventilators along with other badly needed medical equipment such as ventilator tubing, feeding pumps and ventilator accessories to three local hospitals including St ...

Mechanical ventilation is an imperfect method of supplying oxygen to patients who are hypoxic, but there aren't satisfactory alternatives. A recent study by a Japanese group has shown that a "butt ...

The white tubing, the exhalation, is where the patient exhales through that again goes to the vent, through filters and then gets exhaled out,” said Sharofi.

Nursing staff shortage, insufficient equipment testing blamed after tube detaches from Hong Kong patient’s ventilator in isolation ward ...