Baxter has issued a medical device correction for the Life2000 Ventilation System, citing the potential for patient oxygen desaturation events due to improper use with third-party oxygen concentrators, which may cause patient harm or even death.
The Draeger SafeStar 55 has been identified by the U.S. FDA as a Class I recall, the most serious type of recall.
Amid an ongoing current of medical product recalls, hospitals in the United Kingdom are experiencing new electrical problems with certain Philips ventilators.
Baxter has issued a medical device correction for the Life2000 Ventilation System, citing the potential for patient oxygen desaturation events due to improper use with third-party oxygen concentrators, which may cause patient harm or even death.
Bothell, Wash.-based Ventec Life Systems announces that its standalone V+Pro ventilator is reimbursable.
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Three medical engineering graduates of the University of South Florida catapulted themselves into the pandemic spotlight with their upgrade to the ventilator. Carolyna Yamamoto Alves Pinto, Abby Blocker, and Jacob Yarinsky took home first prize and $20,000, after winning a national competition for their device that allows multiple patients to be treated with a single ventilator.
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Sanjay Jupudi, a Dallas-based software developer at Qentelli, is on a mission to reconfigure old CPAP and BiPAP machines into ventilators to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Medtronic plc announces the U.S. commercial launch of the SonarMed pediatric airway monitoring system, which utilizes acoustic technology to check for endotracheal tube obstruction and verify position in real-time.
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An elderly COVID-19 patient at Erithros Stavros (Red Cross) Public Hospital in Athens, Greece, died on Thursday, April 8, after his roommate disconnected his ventilator.
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To address the ventilator shortage in Spring 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government purchased millions of dollars worth of ventilators from several companies, including the SAVe II+ model from AutoMedx, which had not yet even been designed.
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Royal Philips has debuted the noninvasive Philips Ventilator BiPAP A40 EFL, which allows healthcare professionals to automatically screen chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients for expiratory flow limitation.
