OxyGEN is a project to develop a device for automating a manual ventilator called a bag valve mask. OxyGEN is not a medical device only, it is a device designed with open source to reduce the workload ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of students from MIT has devised a new low-cost ventilator to keep patients breathing in places that lack standard mechanical ventilators, or during times of emergency such as ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a low-cost, open-source, manual respirator that could be used to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients. The MIT Emergency Ventilator Project’s ventilator, known ...

The Empire State anticipates requiring 140,000 hospital beds and 30,000 ventilators when the outbreak reaches its peak in 14 to 21 days, Cuomo said in a Saturday press conference. If the state is ...

A Mumbai-born doctor has bagged $1-million funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop his innovation that makes manual ventilator safer for patients. Dr Prathamesh Prabhudesai, a ...

In many parts of the world the COVID-19 pandemic is causing shortages in hospital space, staff, medical supplies, and equipment. Severe cases may require breathing support, but there are only so many ...

Researchers from the First Technical University (Tech-U), Ibadan, have developed prototypes for manual and digital ventilators. Though the university is shut like others due to the Coronavirus ...

A ventilator is a device that supports or takes over the breathing process. People with severe COVID-19 symptoms may require a ventilator. Before COVID-19 became a pandemic, a need for ventilation was ...

After ventilator failure, Shakeel Ahmed survived at Sion Hospital on Ambu bag which had to be continuously pumped manually by his family; dean arranged a ventilator after 8 hours. After ventilator ...