SFGate

'Bridge to nowhere': People placed on ventilators have high chance of mortality

There's at least 51 COVID-19 patients on ventilators at metro hospitals, a Nebraska Medicine doctor said once that happens, it's a bridge leading to nowhere. "It's not a quick in and out. So that's ...
FierceBiotech

Tweaking one setting on mechanical ventilators may help protect patients from lung injury

Mechanical ventilation, the use of a machine to help a person breathe, was not something many people thought about all that often—until the COVID pandemic struck. Stories of patients being put on ...
WRAL

The world is scrambling to buy ventilators in the Covid-19 pandemic. One country has only four of them -- for 12 million people

Covid-19 cases have topped 2.2 million globally and countries around the world are scrambling to buy life-saving equipment as the pandemic places unprecedented demand on hospitals. Covid-19 cases have ...
WBAL

‘We can’t keep people here’: Rural hospitals struggle with limited access to ventilators

In small-town Nebraska, there’s a crisis of care. “We don’t have ICU level care,” said Dr. Katie Thelen, a physician in Holdrege – population about 5,500. “You end up sitting in a rural ER much much ...

Hungary flags delay in reopening as COVID-19 deaths scale new high

Hungary cannot reopen its economy before all citizens older than 65 who have registered for a COVID-19 vaccine are inoculated, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday, as the country reported a ...