With a sudden need for more ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers have been busy trying to come up with alternatives to a standard ventilator. Engineers from Georgia Tech and Emory ...

Ventilators have made national headlines as the U.S. grapples with a shortage of the medical device used to give breathing support to the most severely ill COVID-19 patients. Though only a small ...

As the coronavirus crisis lit up this spring, headlines about how the US could innovate its way out of a pending ventilator shortage landed almost as hard and fast as the pandemic itself. Around the ...

The ventilators, which are required by patients in intensive care units (ICU) who are seriously ill with respiratory diseases like COVID-19, flu, and tuberculosis, are both simpler and cheaper to make ...

A self-assembled “skunk works” team has worked tirelessly to prototype a simple ventilator design for quick and easy assembly from available parts. A self-assembled “skunk works” team at Lawrence ...

Scientists and engineers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a low cost and easy-to-manufacture ventilator design, in response to the need for affordable ventilator technologies ...

A team of engineers and physicians has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances. A team of ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers are working to develop a simple battery powered, pumpless ventilator to fill the need for the life-preserving breathing machines during the coronavirus pandemic. The ...

The treatment of last resort for Covid-19 victims with breathing problems is an invasive ventilator. It’s a horrible treatment, and only a fraction of those placed on it survive, but usually people ...

The Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM) under construction. The MVM is the result of an effort across a particle physics community spanning nine countries. On March 25 a channel called “Mechanical ...

For coronavirus patients, ventilators can be life-saving devices. But the overwhelming number of coronavirus cases has led to a worldwide shortage of ventilators, leaving hospitals scrambling for the ...