Sloppy supervision, a muted alarm, and lack of training led to the suffocation death of a severely paralyzed patient at San Diego's Veterans Administration hospital last year when an alarm failed to ...

Philips Respironics, Inc. has issued updated instructions for the use of its OmniLab Advanced+ (OLA+) Ventilator because of its demonstrated failure in the ventilator inoperative alarm that can cause ...

From 2005-May 2011, 119 patient deaths were linked to ventilator alarm errors, according to an analysis conducted by the Boston Globe. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on ventilator alarm ...

A mother in Florida is going viral on social media for her critical invention when her son's ventilator alarm went off. Nicole Orchard, 28, shared footage online of the unpredictable and exhausting ...

A ventilator leak at a Minnesota nursing home led to a resident’s death last year, causing the facility to become more aggressive in monitoring, a new report finds. In the August incident, the ...

For the second time in a year, the state has faulted the same St. Paul nursing home for failing to respond in a timely manner to the ventilator alarm of a resident who died. According to a report made ...

Philips (NYSE:PHG) has issued corrections for some of its Trilogy Evo ventilator platforms due to multiple issues.

Three nursing home workers didn’t give emergency care to an elderly patient who later died because an alarm never sounded throughout the unit to warn that her ventilator had disconnected, defense ...

Key Criteria for Safe and Effective UseA mechanical ventilator is not just another piece of equipment in an intensive care unit. For a clinic, multi-specialty hospital, ICU, or operating room, it is ...