Re:CoroVent – pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients
by pkaye on Friday April 17, 2020 @02:46PM
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A few questions... Does your ventilator regulate pressure and volume? Does it need a medical oxygen supply? Does it filter the exhaled air? Does it monitor the patients breathing pattern and sync with it? Also what kind of testing has been done to date?
Re:CoroVent – pulmonary ventilator for Covid-19 patients
by jlebar on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:51PM
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> Does your ventilator regulate pressure and volume? Does it need a medical oxygen supply? Does it filter the exhaled air? Does it monitor the patients breathing pattern and sync with it?
Yes to all. :)
> Also what kind of testing has been done to date?
Still very much in development.
Our software is licensed as Apache 2. I'm not sure if the HW license is settled, but the intent is to go with a similarly-permissive license.
To preempt the big question of, how are we different from the many other orgs trying to do a similar thing: We're trying to build a ventilator that a COVID patient can be on for multiple weeks, not just as an emergency stopgap until they can get on a "real" ventilator. We believe that this would be hard with e.g. an approach based on a breather bag to build a device that's sensitive enough not to harm a patient over the course of weeks.
Happy to answer any questions.