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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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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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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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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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Engineering company shares ventilator’s hardware design to spin up production
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-21 15:24
To help in the fight against COVID-19, Medtronic is issuing a special permissive license, sharing the full design specifications, product manuals, design documents and software code for its Puritan Bennett (PB) 560 portable ventilator hardware. The PB 560 ...
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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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Cross-disciplinary team develops inexpensive alternative to ventilators
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-30 10:52
A volunteer team called MIT E-Vent, composed of engineers, physicians, computer scientists and others, is working to develop a safe and inexpensive alternative to ventilators, for emergency use. About a decade ago, some students from the Medical Device ...
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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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