Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation is a type of mechanical ventilation that does not require an artificial airway. Studies published in the 1990s that evaluated the efficacy of this technique ...

In critical cases, COVID-19 attacks the lungs and restricts breathing to the point where a patient needs a ventilator to stay alive. However, in Canada, as in most other countries, there is a ...

The majority of private clinics are closed or have stopped doing cosmetic surgery, so the machines are sitting idle. "If we don't get those ventilators some way or another then there will have to ...

A company founded by two University of Toronto researchers will be manufacturing a portable ventilator that could help Canadian patients with COVID-19. The portable intensive care unit, operated by ...