The Magazine for Sleep Professionals
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Dräger has leveraged its 100+ years of critical care expertise to develop a new solution designed specifically to address the needs of the long-term acute care (LTAC) environment. With Dräger’s solution, LTAC facilities can maintain quality throughout the continuum of care with the convenience of a single vendor. Along with Dräger’s proven […]
On April 1, 2020, a dozen anesthesiology resident physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital kicked off an audacious public challenge to design a rapidly deployable, minimum viable ventilator that could address shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in developing countries. Just three months and more than 200 submissions later, a […]
Nanotronics announced that it has developed and designed nHale™, a bi-level positive air pressure device to support spontaneously breathing adults weighing over 30 kg. The device has obtained Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to assist patients suffering from COVID-19 disease in traditional healthcare facilities […]
Permanent Update to Multi-Function Ventilator Code Increases Access to Integrated Respiratory Care for All Ventilator Users On May 29, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its policy for HCPCS code E0467 (Multi-Function Ventilator) removing “same or similar” restrictions and paving the way for increased access to integrated […]
Fitbit has developed a high-quality, low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator, Fitbit Flow, which has obtained Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for use during the COVID-19 public health emergency. After seeing the global need for ventilators, Fitbit applied its deep in-house expertise in advanced sensor development […]
As hospitals confront the COVID-19 pandemic, caregivers need tools to help them manage a large and dispersed population of ventilated patients safely and effectively. To that end, Capsule Technologies offered the Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation providing present users of the company’s Medical Device Information Platform centralized remote observation of patients’ ventilator […]
This week results from Sermo’s COVID-19 Real Time Barometer with over 5,900 physicians explored whether COVID-19 was a new type of disease, the controversial use of ventilators, as well as the new protocols that could change the way physicians treat COVID-19. In total, Sermo’s Barometer study includes over 27,000 survey […]
ResMed has released the following statement regarding CPAP’s role in mitigating the effects of COVID-19 from ResMed Chief Medical Officer Carlos M. Nunez, M.D.: “ResMed’s primary focus is to put as many lifesaving respiratory devices as possible into the hands of frontline heroes – the healthcare providers treating patients worldwide […]
Getinge is announcing yet another ramp-up in production capacity, to 26,000 ventilators in 2020. The increase equals a growth of 160% compared to 2019 when 10,000 ventilators were produced. The demand for advanced ventilators for the intensive care units in hospitals continues to increase globally as a result of the COVID-19 […]
Drew Copeland, Director of Operations, Sleep Program at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City posted this protocol for Repurposing bi-level ventilators for use with intubated patients while minimizing risk to health care workers during insufficient supply of conventional ventilation for patients with COVID-19 on his LinkedIn Page. “Very […]
