As the coronavirus death toll mounts across the globe and the leaders in COVID-19 hot spots push for more ventilators, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines during treatment.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ventilators are also known as artificial breathing machines. Wednesday night, hospitals across Chicago and the country are mapping out plans to ration ventilators if they have to.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Some COVID-19 patients treated on ventilators suffer post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms from the experience. Because the novel coronavirus is a respiratory infection that, ...

U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators and health care workers ...

Patients could ultimately be prioritized based on a number of factors. Faced with more critically ill COVID-19 patients than equipment to treat them, hundreds of hospitals are mapping out how they can ...

Doctors are researching why some patients remain unconscious for days or weeks, even after sedating drugs are withdrawn. They also worry that... Leslie Cutitta said yes, twice, when clinicians from ...

A critical care expert has urged doctors to reestablish the human link and communications with patients in the Intensive Care ...

Three intensive care patients and a ward doctor died in a fire in a southeastern Ukrainian hospital treating coronavirus cases, a regional governor said on Thursday.

U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators and health care workers ...