When the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic in mid-March 2020, intensive care units in Kenya started witnessing an influx of severely ill patients. Even though the virus was taking ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

Social vulnerability in older adults hospitalized with flu was linked with a modest but higher prevalence of invasive mechanical ventilation and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) life ...