Blount Memorial Hospital has three new hospital-grade BiPAP machines that can be converted into ventilators — bringing the total number of equipment qualifying as ventilators to 40, officials said.

Northwell Health said it has started to convert bi-level positive airway pressure machines into ventilators for COVID-19 patients. BiPAP machines usually are used for patients who have chronic ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Doctors at New York-based Northwell Health made extra ventilators from breathing machines for people with ...

In less than a month, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories converted 100 respiratory machines New Mexico hospitals had on hand into machines that can safely be used as ventilators to treat ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he’d be sending desperately needed “FDA-approved ventilators” to hard-hit hospitals across the nation dealing with the coronavirus crisis—but they haven’t been the ...

New York City-based Northwell Health said it has developed a protocol to transform a BiPAP machine into a functional ventilator and that it plans to share the design online so other hospitals facing ...

As the coronavirus pandemic rips through the U.S., governors have made public pleas for more personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care and frontline workers, and for ventilators to help ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. As doctors face a shortage of ventilators that are crucial for treating coronavirus patients with ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded Thursday to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that the company had delivered more than 1,000 ventilators to the state’s hospitals treating a surge of coronavirus ...