SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — Sometimes, there is a happy ending. But a couple of months ago, the story of Bossier City’s DeShae Lott Sadow didn’t seem to be headed that way. However, thanks to heightened ...
The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...
Officials have pointed to the anesthesia machines as a resource for hospitals. Anticipating ongoing shortages of ventilator machines as the coronavirus continues to spread across the country, states ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gwen Starkey was an incredibly active and independent woman who had just retired from the Ford plant in Claycomo. But since contracting COVID-19 in February, she has spent more than ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Saturday morning, a 64-year-old four-time cancer survivor will be placed on a ventilator. But before she goes under, she wanted to call for the community to take COVID-19 seriously.
BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A 32-year-old woman from Boone County is now home recovering with her newborn after an emergency C-section while she was unconscious on a ventilator battling COVID-19. It ...
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Jessica Bauder is a healthy 37-year-old mother of two boys who didn’t think it was necessary to get the COVID-19 vaccine, until she ended up in the ICU on a ventilator. Her ...