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 ...

More than a hundred patients who depend on ventilators to breathe have died since 2005 in incidents involving the machines’ warning alarms, such as caregivers failing to respond to beeps warning of a ...

ST. PAUL — 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 ...

Sheriff’s Detective Matt Fenske testifies about a breathing machine Friday in the trial of two women accused to killing Solvang ALS patient Heidi Good. To get a better view of what the deputy was ...

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 ...

When a St. Paul nursing home resident’s ventilator tube became detached and sounded an alarm during a worship service at the facility last summer, there weren’t any nursing staff around to help, ...

A nursing home in Frazee, Minn., has been cited for neglect in the case of a resident who died of asphyxiation in October after a ventilator machine stopped working and the sole person on duty failed ...

Medtronic is notifying customers in 80 countries of a "voluntary field corrective action" involving all its Newport HT70 and HT70 Plus ventilators. The action was prompted by reports that the ...

A much-loved dad was discovered dead in a hospital side room after no alarm sounded when his ventilator failed, an inquest has heard. Father-of-three Keith Rogers, 49, was found unresponsive at the ...