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First FDA-approved non-conventional ventilator!
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Just 30 days from conception to FDA approval for emergency use, this one-armed "robot" can provide life-saving ventilation when there are no ICU ventilators available.
Boston Scientific and Appareo Systems are now building thousands of these in order to be prepared for the projected critical shortage of ventilators due to COVID-19.
It isn’t fancy and it doesn’t have many of the features of an ICU ventilator, but for any patient for whom manual Ambu bag (aka BVM) ventilation isn’t contraindicated, this device might be a lifesaver.
Instead of medical staff performing manual bag ventilation one-on-one, these one-armed robots, along with readily available support accessories (pressure overload valve, adjustable PEEP valve, etc.), can work around the clock with just one clinician supervising the vitals of several patients.
The simplicity of this device is what allowed the Teknic team—in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, MGC Diagnostics and Digi-Key, along with manufacturers Appareo Systems and Boston Scientific—to go from design to prototypes to testing to FDA approval to volume production in so little time.
The device’s simplicity also drove down the cost so that hospitals can afford many more of them than ICU ventilators which are twenty times the cost or more. The simplicity also allows medical staff to be trained very quickly.
As Albert Einstein put it, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” We couldn’t agree more.
Boston Scientific and Appareo Systems are now building thousands of these in order to be prepared for the projected critical shortage of ventilators due to COVID-19.
It isn’t fancy and it doesn’t have many of the features of an ICU ventilator, but for any patient for whom manual Ambu bag (aka BVM) ventilation isn’t contraindicated, this device might be a lifesaver.
Instead of medical staff performing manual bag ventilation one-on-one, these one-armed robots, along with readily available support accessories (pressure overload valve, adjustable PEEP valve, etc.), can work around the clock with just one clinician supervising the vitals of several patients.
The simplicity of this device is what allowed the Teknic team—in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, MGC Diagnostics and Digi-Key, along with manufacturers Appareo Systems and Boston Scientific—to go from design to prototypes to testing to FDA approval to volume production in so little time.
The device’s simplicity also drove down the cost so that hospitals can afford many more of them than ICU ventilators which are twenty times the cost or more. The simplicity also allows medical staff to be trained very quickly.
As Albert Einstein put it, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” We couldn’t agree more.
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