As the coronavirus death toll mounts across the globe and the leaders in COVID-19 hot spots push for more ventilators, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines during treatment.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ventilators are also known as artificial breathing machines. Wednesday night, hospitals across Chicago and the country are mapping out plans to ration ventilators if they have to.

The US has about 170,000 ventilators, which could help keep very sick coronavirus patients alive. That may not be enough.

U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators and health care workers ...

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Some COVID-19 patients treated on ventilators suffer post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms from the experience. Because the novel coronavirus is a respiratory infection that, ...

Patients could ultimately be prioritized based on a number of factors. Faced with more critically ill COVID-19 patients than equipment to treat them, hundreds of hospitals are mapping out how they can ...

Three intensive care patients and a ward doctor died in a fire in a southeastern Ukrainian hospital treating coronavirus ...

LONDON, ON – A seven-year international, multi-centre clinical trial led by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) and St. Michael’s Hospital, a site of Unity Health Toronto, has ...