Smiths, acquired by ICU Medical in 2022, has faced multiple quality problems in recent years. The company received a warning letter in 2021, and the FDA has posted seven Class I recalls involving the ...

A view of the production facility of U.S. health care company Baxter International in the state of North-Rhine Wetsphalia in Halle, Germany on Jan. 15, 2021. Reporter Baxter International Inc. issued ...

Vyaire Medical has put up the for-sale sign, as it files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following dropping demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The global ventilation and respiratory device ...

The FDA recently labeled Smiths Medical’s recall of some ventilators as Class I, the most serious kind. ICU Medical’s Smiths Medical initiated a recall of some ASD PneuPac paraPAC Plus 300 and 310 ...

Welcome to another installment of This Week at FDA, your weekly source for updates – big and small – on FDA, drug, and medical device regulation, and what we’re reading from around the web. This week ...

A doctor may replace a person’s ventilator with a tracheostomy if they require ventilation for an extended time. They may also use a tracheostomy to wean a person off respiratory support. A mechanical ...

Social media accounts have been sharing a post on a website called the People’s Voice entitled, “Official Report: Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients.” But this “Official Report” posting was ...

Ventilators can be lifesaving for critically ill COVID-19 patients. A social media claim that a new study shows ventilators killed “nearly all” COVID-19 patients is “quite wrong,” according to the ...

Breakthrough research addresses a long-standing question in pulmonary medicine about whether modern ventilators overstretch lung tissue. They do. These cutting-edge findings by UC Riverside ...