CorVent Medical Closes $4.5M Seed Financing to Commercialize Single-Use Ventilator
The CorVent Single-Use Ventilator is designed to meet each patient’s respiratory needs in an easy plug-and-play setup with built-in safeguards.
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California Laboratory Develops ‘Stopgap’ Ventilator for COVID-19
While hospitals across the U.S. faced a possible shortage of mechanical ventilators due to COVID-19, a self-assembled “skunk works” team at Calif.-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worked tirelessly to prototype a simple ventilator design for quick and easy assembly from available parts.
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Physician: U.S. Healthcare Must Be More Proactive to Prepare for Future Disasters
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed major deficiencies and inequities in the U.S. healthcare system, shining a spotlight on improvements that must be made to steel the country for future disasters, argues University of Rochester Medical Center Assistant Professor Maia Dorsett, MD.
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He Had Never Sold a Ventilator. N.Y. Gave Him an $86 Million Deal.
At first, the offer sounded promising: A Silicon Valley engineer told the Federal Emergency Management Agency that he could deliver thousands of ventilators from Chinese manufacturers to treat COVID patients. But the truth was far different.
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Russia’s Ventilators: Plentiful, But Often Old and Sometimes Broken
Russia may seem well equipped to handle the coronavirus pandemic—the nation reportedly has 27 ventilators per 100,000 citizens, compared to 18.8 per 100,000 in the United States—but there is much more to the story, experts say.
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