The COVID-19 pandemic stretched health facilities globally. Many hospitals ran out of bed spaces and medical supplies, essentially mechanical ventilators and medical oxygen. The surging number of infected and death cases put everyone on their toes. It pushed scientists to think out of the box searching for effective treatment methods and vaccines for the virus.…
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Low-cost, non-electric ventilator allows non-specialized workers to treat COVID-19 patients
A team of engineers from Loughborough University has designed and built a unique low-cost, non-electric ventilator in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ShiVent system was created to allow non-specialized workers to treat patients with coronavirus.
The team - Yusuf Bilesanmi, Ricardo Nascimento, Dr Yusuf Shittu, Gaurav Nanajkar and Pawel Nycz - designed the ventilator with four key features:
Simple to use- by the average health workers and takes only 30 minutes of training
Low-Cost- can be produced at a very small fraction of the price of the average ventilator
Non-Electric- making it suitable for hospital settings with unreliable power
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Loughborough University engineers build low-cost ventilator to treat Covid patients
It allows non-specialised workers to treat patients with coronavirus
New low-cost ventilator which doesn’t need electricity could help hospitals treat COVID patients (Image: Loughborough University)
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