A month ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed some skepticism about the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped Tesla engineers from working to address the shortage of much-needed ventilators in American hospitals facing an influx of COVID-19 cases.
Read MoreThe need for ventilators at U.S. hospitals has been well-documented, but what if nursing homes—which have roughly 8,200 of the devices at their disposal—could come to the rescue?
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The plans for Rice University’s ApolloBVM, an open-source emergency ventilator design that could help patients in treatment for COVID-19, are now online and freely available to everyone in the world.
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The group, dubbed the COVID-19 Ventilator Rapid Response Team, has developed a simple technique for repurposing sleep apnea machines into ventilators as demand outstrips supply in the fight against COVID-19.
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In response to a pressing need for more ventilators to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients, a team led by Johns Hopkins University engineers is developing and prototyping a 3D-printed splitter that will allow a single ventilator to treat multiple patients.
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