When the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic in mid-March 2020, intensive care units in Kenya started witnessing an influx of severely ill patients. Even though the virus was taking ...

Mechanical ventilation is a critical life-saving intervention for patients who cannot breathe adequately on their own. Doctors decide to use a ventilator after carefully evaluating a patient’s oxygen ...

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 ...

Social vulnerability in older adults hospitalized with flu was linked with a modest but higher prevalence of invasive mechanical ventilation and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life ...