More than 300,000 patients receive mechanical ventilation during intensive care per year in the United States, even though the hospital mortality rate for ventilated patients can approach 50 percent.
As the ECRI report explains, inappropriate patient ventilation can cause lung injury in intensive care patients, possibly proving fatal in some cases. While ventilators include modes and features ...
WAYNE, New Jersey, July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) clears Servo-air® mechanical ventilator for use with adult and pediatric patients dependent on intensive care ...
KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The team General Motors and Ventec Life Systems assembled to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic delivered its 30,000th V+Pro critical care ventilator to the U ...
General Motors and Ventec Life Systems have begun mass production of the Ventec Life Systems V+Pro critical care ventilator, ordered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The effort ...
NEW YORK CITY, NY – CorVent Medical, a Coridea portfolio company, announced today the closing of a $4.5M seed financing round to support the commercialization of the first single-use, critical care ...
Our ICU started using an oral care protocol for patients receiving mechanical ventilation to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) last year. However, one of our physicians said that oral care ...