Covid-19
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Team develops bubble helmet to help treat patients with Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 15:47
A team of doctors, led by Dr Ganapathi, from the Mangala Hospital, developed an alternative to the typical oxygen masks: a bubble helmet designed to aid in the treatment of patients with Covid-19. The helmets are transparent and airtight, sealed through a ...
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Inventor creates emergency ventilator to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-15 09:53
In Kashmir, a region that’s located between India and Pakistan, reports stated that there were little more than 100 ventilators available to provide for a population of 12,5 million people. Knowing about his situation, 22-year-old inventor Waseem Ahmad ...
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Doctors find a way to convert regular breathing machines into ventilators
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 16:46
Like many other healthcare facilities, Northwell Health Hospital, in New York, was experience the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the rising number of patients in need of hospital care. Amidst the situation, Dr. Hugh Cassiere, a pulmonologists at ...
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Inventor creates COVID Emergency Ventilator in just three days
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-02 12:16
Rhys Thomas, a consultant anaesthetist at Glangwili General Hospital, was “desperately concerned about the lack of intensive care unit (ICU) ventilators to deal with the inevitable pandemic“. He contacted a local engineering company and, in just three ...
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Researches develop system to improve intubations procedures of Covid-19 patients
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 09:18
Researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (Universidade Federal de São Carlos – USFCar), have created a system to improve the intubation procedure of patients with Covid-19. In a typical intubation procedure, a tube is connected to a ...
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Team 3D prints ventilator valves to save lives in Italy
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-25 08:36
Christian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli are a team of young Italian engineers that work for a company that specializes in 3D printing. They were living in a country severely affected by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. “A few of our friends are ...
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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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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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Students from Kenya develop country’s first low-cost ventilator
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 14:25
Like many other countries in the World, Kenya was being affected by the coronavirus and worrying about the potential lack of ventilators that might be necessary to treat patients with Covid-19. According to the Dr. Idris Nzao Chikophe, Secretary-General ...
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