The artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite’s head projects face up, like a mystic’s ...

Starting in the 1920s, people stricken with the most severe form of polio were placed in artificial respirators, called iron lungs, to keep them alive. Photo via the World Health Organization ...

Respiree, a health tech company developing artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to manage disease progression across the ...

The devices are large, horizontal cylinders that act as artificial respirators, which work by mimicking the breathing process: air is first sucked out of the box by air pumps that are operated ...

The first alerts came from Italy, where a large majority of patients placed in intensive care and on artificial respirators died. The statistics are just as fierce in the UK and New York, where 80 ...