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• Caregiver creates an open source blog to design a Pandemic Ventilator

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-25 16:36

  

  The Pandemic Ventilator was built to be used as a ventilator of last resort during a possible avian flu pandemic. The inventor was motivated by the idea of someone he loves needing a ventilator in a moment of crisis. The ventilator is very primitive and ...

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Multi patient-one ventilator setup

  Solution Shared by FSMeireles on 2020-04-09 14:06

  

  As the number of COVID-19 cases has increased, the number of patients in hospitals, and, therefore, the number of medical devices needed, has also escalated. This means that lifesaving devices, such as ventilators, are not abundant enough in certain ...

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• Physicists at CERN develop High Energy Ventilator

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-09 16:54

  

  Physicists from the LHCb collaborations at CERN are developing a stripped-down ventilator, built with cheap and simple components. The device is called High Energy Ventilator (HEV) and it is based on the same type of systems used at CERN to regulate gas ...

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• Team develops 150$ ventilator that is the size of a cereal box

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 11:30

  

  A team at the University of Minnesota is working on a simple and inexpensive mechanical ventilator that is the size of a cereal box – the Coventor. The objective is that the device can be produced quickly and “allows those patients who would otherwise not ...

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• Inventor creates COVID Emergency Ventilator in just three days

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-02 12:16

  

  Rhys Thomas, a consultant anaesthetist at Glangwili General Hospital, was “desperately concerned about the lack of intensive care unit (ICU) ventilators to deal with the inevitable pandemic“. He contacted a local engineering company and, in just three ...

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• Doctors find a way to convert regular breathing machines into ventilators

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 16:46

  

  Like many other healthcare facilities, Northwell Health Hospital, in New York, was experience the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the rising number of patients in need of hospital care. Amidst the situation, Dr. Hugh Cassiere, a pulmonologists at ...

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