Ruby General Hospital, Kolkata

Breathing is the simplest thing one does in life, but for millions of people around the world, it sometimes becomes a struggle – a struggle to breathe because of some respiratory disease, recovery from a medical surgery, or just simply a struggle to breathe with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Ventilators have been a lifeline for sustaining life in sick units for decades. What has very much changed in recent years is the extent of progress in ventilator technology: care outcomes and standards are dramatically improved. Today’s ventilators are more than simply mechanical pumps to aid in inhalation and exhalation to the extent they have now become very intelligent systems that can learn how to operate from a specific patient’s physiology. From the intensive care units to the specialty units such as the cardiothoracic surgery or the advanced recovery units in a heart hospital in Kolkata , there are now none left to deny the fact that these machines are the tools that have mad...