A mechanical ventilator is a device that pumps air into the lungs of a person with severe respiratory failure. The air in a ventilator often has a higher percentage of oxygen than room air. COVID-19 ...

Berto Pandolfo works for the University of Technology Sydney, and at times he receives funding to support his research and writing. Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture ...

Ventilators have possibly never been as central to public discourse as they have been during the COVID-19 pandemic. First it was the grave shortage of the device in Italy, where doctors were left to ...

The ventilators, which are required by patients in intensive care units (ICU) who are seriously ill with respiratory diseases like COVID-19, flu, and tuberculosis, are both simpler and cheaper to make ...