The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

A. A ventilator is breathing machine. It could be as simple as a flexible plastic bottle squeezed by hand or as complex as a machine controlled by a computer and powered by electricity or compressed ...

Ross Hunter says his prototype ventilator is based on a coffee machine design Scottish design engineer Ross Hunter has made it to the finals of a global competition to create low-cost ventilators for ...

A medical devices maker has cast doubt on using non-specialist manufacturers to produce more ventilators. Craig Thompson, head of products at Oxfordshire company Penlon, said the idea that other firms ...