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 ...

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 ...

All the bells and whistles included with high-tech medical equipment are literally driving doctors and nurses to distraction. Impelled partly by fear of legal liability, manufacturers of advanced ...