Covid-19
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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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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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International team develops a cheap ventilator with off-the-shelf components
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 17:19
The 26 physicists of the DarkSide experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, designed a new mechanical ventilator they hope to mass produce quickly and cheaply with off-the-shelf components. The new design has been spearheaded by Cristiano ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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