Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a hospital patient has a breathing problem, the services of a respiratory therapist are needed. Recently we had a visitor who ...

In the last few months, the term PPE — personal protective equipment — has entered everyone’s lexicon. And while face masks are self-explanatory, the purpose of and criteria for ventilator use is less ...

The machine is connected to a patient through a tube that goes into the windpipe. It delivers oxygen through positive pressure – similar to a breath – to a patient, again and again. This is the job of ...

If media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic was a word cloud, “ventilators” would occupy a prominent spot. And critical questions abound: Will there be enough to satisfy increased demand in the ...

Respiratory therapists help people breathe. And they’ve never been as valued as during the COVID-19 pandemic, when breathing was no longer a basic body function. “It was surreal,” says Roger Plummer, ...

BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) They are the medical professionals who help people breathe easier and, in the midst of a pandemic which often leads patients to require breathing through a ventilator, respiratory ...

Ventilator information is transmitted to respiratory therapy supervisors, who can direct respiratory therapists to care for ventilated patients. Yale New Haven Health has launched an initiative to ...

MILWAUKEE -- FOX6 News on Sunday, April 12 spoke with a Milwaukee Area Technical College instructor headed to the coronavirus hotspot of New York to help treat COVID-19 patients, while, at the same ...

DONGGUAN, GUANGDONG, CHINA, January 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As respiratory health challenges increase globally ...

As ice and bitter cold​ grip North Texas, hospital workers are staying clocked in around the clock—providing life-saving care ...

AURORA, Colo. — Respiratory therapists are in high demand. Many of them burned out and left the industry during the pandemic, according to UCHealth. Enrollment in the field has also dropped 27 percent ...

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