COVID-19: Hospitals fear a shortage of ventilators

“The real issue is how to rapidly increase ventilator production when your need exceeds the supply”

A ventilator is a medical device which provides a patient with oxygen when they are unable to breathe on their own. The ventilator kindly pushes air into the lungs and allows it to come back out as the lungs would typically do when they are able.

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Due to the current pandemic caused by the fast-spreading of the COVID-19, there is an urgent need for ICU ventilators for the most serious cases. Can you come up with a low-cost, easy-to-build ventilator for hospitals in need?

Following the progression of the COVID-19, the number of infected patients grows in many countries so fast it doubles every 3 days. Since 20% of them are hospitalized and 5% need admission in an ICU, the demand for ventilators is extremely high.

No healthcare system is prepared for such high demand, so the rapid manufacturing of ventilators for hospitals everywhere is rather urgent. Current ventilator models are complex and costly, and the number of manufacturers is limited. Therefore, it is not possible to supply the needed amount in the short-term.

Multiple initiatives have been kicked off globally as an attempt to solve this challenge. Their common goal is, within their reach, to come up with a complete or partial solution that may help. In this sense, minimum requirements have been set in order for the ventilators to work properly on a COVID-19 patient. Even though there are different criteria out there, we only provide you with one approach that can be accessed in the challenge’s full description. In addition, we suggest taking a look at other global initiatives to come up with ventilators to treat COVID-19.

Companies working In Manufacturing Ventilators

Becton, Dickinson and Company, Drägerwerk AG & Co, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited, General Electric Company, Getinge AB, Hamilton Medical, Koninklijke Philips N.V, Medtronic, ResMed, Smiths Group plc And Others

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