Covid-19

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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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• Students develop remote controlled robot to assist patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-08 18:51

  

  Engeneering students from the Ecole Superiore Polytechnique (ESP), in Dakar, have developed a medical robot designed to help medical professionals stay safe while treating patients with Covid-19. We've found that health care workers are highly ...

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• Robot to help hospitalized patients keep in touch with their loved ones

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 22:17

  

  Patients who were hospitalized during the Covid-19 pandemic were not allowed to receive visits from their loved-ones, in order to prevent the spread of the virus. However, to make sure the patients could still keep in touch with their family and friends, ...

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• Engineer creates robot to help healthcare workers provide remote care for their patients

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:21

  

  Anthony James Bautista, engineer and assistant professor at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), created a robot to help medical professionals take care of their patients while minimizing direct contact, reducing the risk of infection. The device was ...

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• Scholars and researchers develop a robot to encourage children to wash their hands

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-03 17:34

  

  Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham academic and research centre AMMACHI Labs in Kerala in collaboration with Glasgow University in Scotland have developed Pepe, the robot that engages students and encourage them to wash their hands properly. Pepe has been ...

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• Researchers develop a device able to monitor trends in flu-like illnesses to aid prevention mechanisms

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-07 10:40

  

  Scientists from the University of Massachusetts developed a portable device, FluSense, powered by artificial intelligence to detect coughing and crowd size in real time. The device analyses the data which are used to monitor trends in flu-like illnesses ...

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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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• Researches develop system to improve intubations procedures of Covid-19 patients

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 09:18

  

  Researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (Universidade Federal de São Carlos – USFCar), have created a system to improve the intubation procedure of patients with Covid-19. In a typical intubation procedure, a tube is connected to a ...

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