Covid-19
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Multi patient-one ventilator setup
Solution Shared by FSMeireles on 2020-04-09 14:06
As the number of COVID-19 cases has increased, the number of patients in hospitals, and, therefore, the number of medical devices needed, has also escalated. This means that lifesaving devices, such as ventilators, are not abundant enough in certain ...
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Mother converts breast pumps into emergency ventilators
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:12
During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were facing severe shortages of ventilators necessary to treat patients with Covid-19. Knowing about this problem, Brandi Gerstner, an engineer at the University of Maryland, wondered if ...
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Inventor creates emergency ventilator to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-15 09:53
In Kashmir, a region that’s located between India and Pakistan, reports stated that there were little more than 100 ventilators available to provide for a population of 12,5 million people. Knowing about his situation, 22-year-old inventor Waseem Ahmad ...
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Doctors find a way to convert regular breathing machines into ventilators
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 16:46
Like many other healthcare facilities, Northwell Health Hospital, in New York, was experience the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the rising number of patients in need of hospital care. Amidst the situation, Dr. Hugh Cassiere, a pulmonologists at ...
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Engineering company shares ventilator’s hardware design to spin up production
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-21 15:24
To help in the fight against COVID-19, Medtronic is issuing a special permissive license, sharing the full design specifications, product manuals, design documents and software code for its Puritan Bennett (PB) 560 portable ventilator hardware. The PB 560 ...
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Portuguese student responds to pandemic crisis with open source ventilators
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-13 16:27
João Nascimento, a Portuguese Neurosciences and Philosophy student at Harvard University, was paying close attention to the news reports about the spread of the new strain of coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 disease. João noticed that one of the ...
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Consortium in Spain develops medically validated ventilator
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-23 12:28
A group of Spanish organizations and Institutions got together in a consortium to work together to build an emergency ventilator, to overcome the equipment shortages caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The work is being developed by an alliance between ...
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Team develops 150$ ventilator that is the size of a cereal box
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 11:30
A team at the University of Minnesota is working on a simple and inexpensive mechanical ventilator that is the size of a cereal box – the Coventor. The objective is that the device can be produced quickly and “allows those patients who would otherwise not ...
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Inventor creates COVID Emergency Ventilator in just three days
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-02 12:16
Rhys Thomas, a consultant anaesthetist at Glangwili General Hospital, was “desperately concerned about the lack of intensive care unit (ICU) ventilators to deal with the inevitable pandemic“. He contacted a local engineering company and, in just three ...
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Physicists at CERN develop High Energy Ventilator
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-09 16:54
Physicists from the LHCb collaborations at CERN are developing a stripped-down ventilator, built with cheap and simple components. The device is called High Energy Ventilator (HEV) and it is based on the same type of systems used at CERN to regulate gas ...
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