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 ...

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 ...

> Ventilator alarm errors were linked to 119 patient deaths between 2005 and May 2011, according to an analysis of federal safety reports by The Boston Globe. As a another source of alarm fatigue, 27 ...

Three nursing home workers didn’t give emergency care to an elderly patient who later died because an alarm never sounded throughout the unit to warn that her ventilator had disconnected, defense ...

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 report made ...