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Team develops emergency mask for hospital ventilators
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-25 08:59
Christian Fracassi and Alessandro Romano are a team of young Italian engineers that work for a company that specializes in 3D printing. During the Covid-19 pandemic they started printing ventilator valves for hospitas that were running out of that ...
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Siblings develop app for high school students to sign virtual yearbooks
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 22:14
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools all around the world were forced to close or reduce activities, causing many students to miss out on certain traditional experiences and events that usually mark the end of the school year. One of those traditions, is ...
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Students develop robots to spray disinfectant in large outdoor areas
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-26 10:58
Abd Ali Atwi and Ali Hassan, two engineering students from Lebanon, teamed up to create robots that are able to disinfect large areas and, as such, help control the spread of the new coronavirus. The robots are equipped with a tank that holds up to 25 ...
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Doctor shares a way to treat two or four patients with one ventilator
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-25 11:44
Based on a feasibility study published in 2016 in Academic Emergency Medicine, Dr. Charlene Irvin Babcock from Detroit Michigan shows how to modify one ventilator to ventilate two or four patients simultaneously to help the fight against Covid-19. Using a ...
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Architect designs cardboard beds to tackle the shortage of beds for patients with Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-15 09:48
Rhea Shah, an architect living in Mumbai, realized that the country was experiencing a shortage of hospitals beds, in hospitals and quarantine centers, for patients with Covid-19. While quarantining in her family home, who run the Aryan Paper Mill, she ...
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City launches helpline for citizens with mental health problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:27
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many people were feeling the emotional and psychological burden of the situation. To address this problem, the Lisbon Municipality created a helpline to offer psychosocial support to its residents. The line “Lisboa Liga-te” ...
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Nurses create stuffed animals with recordings of loved-ones for patients with Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-08 18:50
Michelle Vaughan is a nurse who was working in the Intensive Care Unit at the Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. She described the experience as “incredibly scary. We’re incredibly emotionally impacted by this”. Everyday she was ...
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Ugandan innovator creates shields for motorcycle taxis
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-13 19:28
In Uganda, motorcycles are a big part of the public transportation system, providing taxi service to their passengers. There are hundreds of thousands of these motorcycles, called boda-bodas, on the streets of Uganda. However, due to the close proximity ...
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Researchers share software that helps healthcare facilities manage PPE stock
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:37
A team of researchers from ICMC-USP (Mathematical Science and Computation Institute from São Paulo University) have created a software that helps hospitals and other medical facilities manage their protective equipment stock. Personal protective equipment ...
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Team develops Field Emergency Ventilator system
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-01 22:29
Colin Keogh, Conall Laverty and David Pollard created Open Source Ventilator (OSV) Ireland, a project focused on gathering volunteers to work on the development of a Field Emergency Ventilator. The group got together through a Facebook group dedicated to ...
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