Covid-19

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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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• Inventor designs a 3D printed toothbrush for the oral care of ventilated patients

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 11:27

  

  Dhaval Trivedi designed a 3D printed toothbrush for ventilated patients to be used when disposable products are not available. Good oral care of ICU patients is linked to better survivorship and reduced ventilatory associated pneumonia. Dhaval’s open ...

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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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• Faculty and students design face shields with locally available components

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-27 16:47

  

  A research team from universities in two continents is racing to develop ‘do-it-yourself’ healthcare gear. The aim is to have gears that can be developed and assembled from components available at the local level. “We’re trying to figure out how to get ...

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• Team develops bubble helmet to help treat patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 15:47

  

  A team of doctors, led by Dr Ganapathi, from the Mangala Hospital, developed an alternative to the typical oxygen masks: a bubble helmet designed to aid in the treatment of patients with Covid-19. The helmets are transparent and airtight, sealed through a ...

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• Indian scientists create platform to deal with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 10:51

  

  In India, a group of scientist joined forces to help the country fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The group counts with more than 500 scientists, from the country’s top institutions and internationally, and includes also engineers, doctors, science ...

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• University team develops a tool to help hospitals with capacity planning

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-05-07 11:39

  

  The Predictive Healthcare Team from the University of Pennsylvania developed a tool, the Covid-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics (CHIME), to assist hospitals with capacity planning around Covid-19. As demand increases following the pandemic outbreak, ...

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• Experts created protective shields especially designed for dentists

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 09:33

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Portuguese government ordered the temporary suspension of dentistry and stomatology practices, except in cases of emergency, due to the potential for infection during those procedures. “The proximity with the oral cavity, ...

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• Doctors create airtight chamber to transport Covid-19 patients safely

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-18 16:15

  

  A group of doctors from the Aureus Institute of Medical Sciences developed a equipment called CoviSafe – a container “box” designed to safely transport patients infected with Covid-19. The necessity was brought up by the difficulties encountered in ...

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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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