A simple, low-cost ventilator based on the resuscitation bags carried in ambulances - and widely available in hospitals - has been designed by an international team of university researchers. The ...

A self-assembled “skunk works” team has worked tirelessly to prototype a simple ventilator design for quick and easy assembly from available parts. A self-assembled “skunk works” team at Lawrence ...

Scientists and engineers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a low cost and easy-to-manufacture ventilator design, in response to the need for affordable ventilator technologies ...

Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, health authorities were concerned about potential shortages of medical supplies and equipment such as ventilators. Several companies and innovators came to the ...

If the desperate need for ventilators wasn’t already clear, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo brought it to the nation in a speech aired widely Tuesday after the feds offered to send his state 400 of the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Drexel University engineer has invented a simple, inexpensive backup ventilator to help save lives in the fight against COVID-19. Marek Swoboda has been working on a breathing ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have invented an emergency ventilator that could help save the lives of patients suffering from ...

The Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM) under construction. The MVM is the result of an effort across a particle physics community spanning nine countries. On March 25 a channel called “Mechanical ...

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. He ...

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, are working with clinicians to create a simple, inexpensive ventilator. They have developed a prototype and plan to make plans freely available online ...