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fierce biotech - Philips debuts smaller emergency ventilator amid manufacturing expansion

Philips is rolling out a new emergency-use ventilator to help relieve some of the burden on intensive care units as well as to provide care both inside and outside of hospitals.

Built as a smaller alternative to the more durable, full-featured hospital ventilators currently in high demand, the Respironics E30 device can deliver high-flow oxygen both invasively and noninvasively and can include air filters to help minimize healthcare workers’ potential exposure to the coronavirus.

wishtv.com - Ventilator production begins at GM Kokomo

KOKOMO, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) — Workers at the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) manufacturing facility in Kokomo have started to produce ventilators in the fight against COVID-19 with plans to produce 30,000 by the end of summer.

medtronic.com - Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production

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cnn - GM prepares to ship first round of ventilators

General Motors is ready to ship its first round of ventilators for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 starting Tuesday, the company said in a statement.

forbes.com - Medtronic Teams Up With Foxconn And Vietnam’s Vingroup To Make Coronavirus Ventilators

As the coronavirus continues to spread around the world, Taiwan’s top manufacturer and a Vietnamese conglomerate have joined the fight against COVID-19 by making ventilators.

fiercebiotech.com - U.S. government issues $1.1B in ventilator contracts to Philips, GM

The U.S. federal government has tapped Philips to manufacture hospital ventilators for critical COVID-19 care, with the company planning to double its production by May—while the automaker General Motors has been contracted to deliver 30,000 by the end of August.

nbc news - Xerox plans to mass produce disposable ventilators

WASHINGTON — Xerox, known for making copies, is set to announce Monday that it will be “rapidly scaling up” production of inexpensive, disposable ventilators that could serve as a critical stopgap for ICU-grade ventilators now in short supply amid the coronavirus pandemic, company officials said.

caranddriver.com - Tesla's Ventilator Design Has a Long Road before Helping Patients

Tesla posted a video of its engineering team working on a ventilator made mostly from car parts, including parts from the Model 3.

The team behind the ventilator acknowledges that they're still working on the system and it's not ready for use.

Once ready, the Tesla-built ventilator will still have to undergo FDA testing and approval before being used by hospitals. Even then it’s still likely it won’t be used for the worst coronavirus cases.

vox.com - Ford and GM are making tens of thousands of ventilators. It may already be too late.

From major car makers to DIY creations, we’re about to have more ventilators than we ever thought possible.

popular mechanics - MIT Is Sharing Designs for a $500 Emergency Ventilator

Ten years ago, MIT students and faculty came up with an alternative design for an emergency ventilator, using the Ambu resuscitation bags that are commonly found in hospitals.

Now, a new team of MIT researchers has revived the effort to make the designs available for free online.

Armed with the cheap designs, which only require about $500 in parts to produce, non-traditional manufacturers, like auto companies, could ramp up production of ventilators.

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time.com - Inventors Are Whipping Up Homemade Ventilators to Fend Off a Shortage. Some Doctors Are Wary

A mechanical ventilator can cost a hospital tens of thousands of dollars up front, and even more money each day it’s used to keep oxygen flowing into a sick patient’s lungs. It’s unsurprising, then, that some small U.S. hospitals can count theirs on one hand. There are about 160,000 ventilators in use in hospitals nationwide—about half the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as of April 6.

the new york times - ‘The Other Option Is Death’: New York Starts Sharing of Ventilators

A New York hospital system has begun treating two patients instead of one on some ventilators, a desperate measure that could help alleviate a shortage of the critical breathing machines and help hospitals around the country respond to the surge of coronavirus patients expected in the coming weeks.

Livescience.com - Sharing a single ventilator between 4 patients is possible. But it could be disastrous.

Usually a ventilator supports just one person. Can it support more?

The Guardian - New device enables single ventilators to be shared between multiple patients in ‘extreme emergencies’

Australian researchers say they can safely ‘split’ ventilators, which are needed for critically ill patients with coronavirus and other respiratory illnesses

Ventilator Invention News

SPACE COAST DAILY - Engineers Persevered to Develop Ventilator to Help COVID-19 Pandemic

(NASA) – On April 30, the Food and Drug Administration approved VITAL for a ventilator Emergency Use Authorization. Developed in just 37 days by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in response to the coronavirus pandemic, VITAL (short for Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) wouldn’t replace current hospital ventilators, which can treat a broader range of medical issues.

the harvard gazette - Innovating to train medical pros on using mechanical ventilators

Harvard and EdX announced the launch of a free online course designed to train frontline medical professionals to operate the mechanical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients.

military.com - Army Offers Cash Prizes for Ideas on How to Speed Ventilator Production

The U.S. Army's acquisition czar recently launched a competition for companies to present solutions to rapidly produce ventilators needed for the response to the deadly novel coronavirus.

Bruce Jette, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisitions, logistics and technology, has directed the Army Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch) program team to host the COVID-19 Ventilator Challenge to find ideas for a low-cost, emergency ventilator that requires minimal components and is designed for simplified mass production, according to a recent service news release.

wired. com - Ventilator Makers Race to Prevent a Possible Shortage

Manufacturers are producing as many as they can to care for Covid-19 patients with breathing problems. Now the federal government is asking for even more.

usa today - 'It's not fancy, but it works': Mississippi doctor uses garden hose, lamp timer and electronic valve to create makeshift ventilators

JACKSON, Miss. — As states across the country beg for ventilators to help patients suffering with respiratory issues from COVID-19, the University of Mississippi Medical Center is building its own makeshift ventilators with supplies found at a hardware store.

The Los Angeles Times - ‘Apollo 13 moments’: Amid coronavirus crisis, doctors, inventors convert devices into ventilators

WASHINGTON — Dr. Charles Powell describes it as an “Apollo 13 moment.” In just a few days, a team of doctors and respiratory therapists at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City scavenged tubes and electronics, crafted a key part on a 3-D printer, and successfully converted a $1,500 sleep therapy device into a full-blown ventilator, capable of substituting for the $50,000 machine on many, although not all, patients.

usa today - 'Scotch tape and baling wire': How some hospitals and companies are responding to meet America's ventilator shortage

As the coronavirus pandemic appears near a peak in parts of the U.S., hospitals are training medical staff on how to run ventilators while companies and doctors are retrofitting devices in case facilities run out of the breathing machines.

WBUR.com - Fearing Shortage, Teams Scramble To Design A Simple Ventilator (But Don't Try This At Home)

In his home basement, Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor Greg Fischer is tinkering with a contraption to help keep coronavirus patients alive if the supply of high-tech ventilators runs low.

cnn - He was building rockets. Now he's taking on America's ventilator shortage

Austin, Texas (CNN Business)Victor Radulescu thought he would never see another ventilator.

Early on in his career, the young engineer spent a year helping to design the breathing assistance machines at Medtronic, a medical device manufacturer. But then, about four years ago, he made a switch and joined rocket startup Virgin Orbit. He's since spent the past few years helping to design a 70-foot rocket that could launch from beneath the wing of a 747 airplane and deliver small satellites into outer space.

med.stanford.edu - Stanford researchers lead effort to build rapid-response ventilators

An effort to design and build new, simplified ventilators for patients with severe cases of COVID-19 is being led by researchers at Stanford.

cleveland.com - Local companies collaborate to create new ventilator designed, manufactured in Cleveland for coronavirus crisis

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new ventilator has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and it’s produced right here in Cleveland by SecondBreath LLC., owned by Dan T. Moore Co.

u.s. news & world report - Cheap, Effective Ventilator Made From Ambulance 'Resuscitation Bags'

MONDAY, April 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- 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.

csrwire.com - Engineers, Emergency, ICU Doctors Create Portable, Scalable Ventilator

Based on design created for the U.S. Army in the 1960s, device could help fill gap in emergency resources to deliver life-saving patient care during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

yaledailynews.com - Yale junior designs ventilator-sharing apparatus

When Paul Stankey’s ’21 spring season was canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis, he didn’t head directly home to Minnesota. Instead, he returned to New Haven, setting out to design an apparatus that allows three patients to share a ventilator — a resource in increasingly scarce supply as the pandemic batters the nation and the world.

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wall street journal - U.S. Buying More Than $2.5 Billion in Ventilators for Coronavirus Patients

The federal government expects to receive tens of thousands more ventilators in coming weeks under more than $2.5 billion in new contracts recently signed with manufacturers, though Covid-19 cases may have peaked by the time the machines are delivered.

vox.com - You can’t use ventilators without sedatives. Now the US is running out of those, too.

Ambulance and emergency sirens in New York City are wailing ceaselessly this month, as the number of reported deaths from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the state surpassed 4,100 as of April 6. (Public health experts say that these tallies are severely undercounting the total.)

time.com - The Surprisingly Long History of the Ventilator, the Machine You Never Want to Need

With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying desperately to keep patients alive. And those machines, which help patients breathe or breathe for them, are in startlingly short supply.

qz.com - Israeli engineers created an open-source hack for making Covid-19 ventilators

It took 10 days, more than 40 scientists, and the motor of a snowblower. The result may wind up being an inexpensive way to—in a pinch—save the lives of people suffering from Covid-19.

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