Although it remains to be seen how this action will affect the medical device sector, FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra explicitly mentioned ventilators in a statement, writing: “We heard about hospitals worried that they would be unable to fix a ventilator because a manufacturer was seeking to deny access to repair it. Outages caused by repair restrictions like these can make the difference in times of emergencies.”
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Design engineers at Monolithic Power Systems share with EDN their design process for developing an open-source “emergency ventilator” with a focus on power solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Elite Medical Experts shares its take on the voluntary recall of specific Philips Respironics ventilators, BiPAP, and CPAP devices.
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Sanjay Jupudi, a Dallas-based software developer at Qentelli, is on a mission to reconfigure old CPAP and BiPAP machines into ventilators to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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When 20 ventilators from the State of New York arrived without a pre-arranged delivery time on the shipping dock of Long Island Community Hospital at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the hospital’s clinical engineering team kicked into high gear. But the arrival of the ventilators was only the start of the CE team’s work.
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