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 ...

Daniella Gray is a Newsweek Family & Parenting Reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on family dynamics, childhood development, parenting styles, U.S. education and current trends in family and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...