Covid-19
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Professors and students develop a cheap and easy to assemble ventilator to help in the fight against Covid19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-31 10:21
In just one week, a team at Oxford University and King’s College London built a simple ventilator, the OxVent, that could help the fight against Covid19. Andrew Farmery academic at the University of Oxford and consultant anaesthetist explained that the ...
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Engineers design an automated bag valve mask to tackle the shortage of ventilators due to Covid19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 09:57
Dr Matthew Wettergreen and his team at the Rice Univeristy, in Texas, designed an automated bag valve mask in less than two weeks to tackle the needs emerging because of the Covid19 pandemic. This automated bag valve mask device is meant to take less ...
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Engineer developed ventilator powered by Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 10:53
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries around the world were experiencing a lack of ventilators necessary to treat patients. Aware of this situation, Marco Mascorro decided to use his engineering expertise and build a simple, low-cost, Pandemic ...
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Team 3D prints ventilator valves to save lives in Italy
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-25 08:36
Christian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli are a team of young Italian engineers that work for a company that specializes in 3D printing. They were living in a country severely affected by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. “A few of our friends are ...
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Researchers develop open source personal respirator for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-09-16 17:46
A team at the University of Southampton, led by professors Paul Elkington and Hywel Morgan, have developed an innovative device to provide protection for healthcare workers in the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It is really important to minimise ...
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Group of inventors creates emergency ventilator to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-27 12:27
OxyGEN is an open hardware prototype that has been collaboratively developed by a group of engineers based in Barcelona. The group got together in March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, after realizing the severe lack in emergency ventilators for ...
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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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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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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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Students from Kenya develop country’s first low-cost ventilator
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 14:25
Like many other countries in the World, Kenya was being affected by the coronavirus and worrying about the potential lack of ventilators that might be necessary to treat patients with Covid-19. According to the Dr. Idris Nzao Chikophe, Secretary-General ...
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