Philips sent updated instructions after disclosing problems last year with an alarm that can interrupt treatment for people ...

This has sparked a new conversation about the difference between ventilators, Continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines and bi-level respiratory devices known popularly as bi-level ...

If a BIPAP machine is modified to filter out viruses, it can hold a patient who isn’t facing a severe case, at least for a couple of days — possibly enough for a ventilator to become available ...

Her ventilator was among millions of breathing devices that Philips Respironics recalled last summer over safety concerns about numerous models of its ventilators, BiPAP and CPAP machines.

Anybody who uses a CPAP machine at home, he said, may want to sleep in a separate room from loved ones to avoid infecting them. That's true even if the person with apnea doesn't have any COVID-19 ...

Doctors say the machine that helps some people with sleep apnea keep their airway open at night won't be enough to help an ill COVID-19 patient breathe, and could spread the coronavirus to bystanders.

Anybody who uses a CPAP machine at home, he said, may want to sleep in a separate room from loved ones to avoid infecting them. That's true even if the person with apnea doesn't have any COVID-19 ...

Their first effort -- a proof of concept -- converts the Airsense 10 CPAP machine, which is a common, inexpensive sleep apnea treatment device, into a ventilator. It does so by simply replacing ...

If a BIPAP machine is modified to filter out viruses, it can hold a patient who isn’t facing a severe case, at least for a couple of days — possibly enough for a ventilator to become available ...

Anybody who uses a CPAP machine at home, he said, may want to sleep in a separate room from loved ones to avoid infecting them. That's true even if the person with apnea doesn't have any COVID-19 ...