Multidisciplinary team creates low-cost, easy-to-assemble ventilator to support hospitals
08-04-2020
INEGI is supporting INESC-TEC - Institute of Systems and Computers Engineering, Technology and Science and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) to test and validate PNEUMA, a low-cost and easy-to-assemble alternative ventilator, developed to support Portuguese hospitals.
The initiative is being developed in close collaboration with the Northern Regional Health Administration (ARS Norte), and also counts on the support of the Portuguese Electrotechnical Institute (IEP), Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, and Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto. It also has the financial support of the companies BotnRoll and SELT, and the founding associate of INEGI, AIMMAP - Association of Metallurgical, Metalworking and Related Industries of Portugal.
Designed as a response to a possible future shortage of ventilators, INESC-TEC conceived equipment that relies on the automation of a self-inflating balloon, replacing the operator and reducing direct contact with the patient. The objective is to maintain blood oxygenation in the event of an emergency response, which is why it is being developed to offer temporary support to second and third line hospitals as a last resort solution.
The Northern Portuguese scientific, technological, medical and industrial community met in a joint effort that has the exclusive objective of facilitating the work of health professionals, since, at the end of the project, the results obtained will be open intellectual property, allowing the production of this campaign ventilator anywhere in the world.
The prototype under development will be adaptable to different systems of self-inflating balloons, and can be produced in large quantities in a short time. It has already been tested in pre-clinical trials, and its industrialization, production and assembly are being studied, in coordination with ARS Norte.
The initiative is being developed in close collaboration with the Northern Regional Health Administration (ARS Norte), and also counts on the support of the Portuguese Electrotechnical Institute (IEP), Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, and Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto. It also has the financial support of the companies BotnRoll and SELT, and the founding associate of INEGI, AIMMAP - Association of Metallurgical, Metalworking and Related Industries of Portugal.
Designed as a response to a possible future shortage of ventilators, INESC-TEC conceived equipment that relies on the automation of a self-inflating balloon, replacing the operator and reducing direct contact with the patient. The objective is to maintain blood oxygenation in the event of an emergency response, which is why it is being developed to offer temporary support to second and third line hospitals as a last resort solution.
The Northern Portuguese scientific, technological, medical and industrial community met in a joint effort that has the exclusive objective of facilitating the work of health professionals, since, at the end of the project, the results obtained will be open intellectual property, allowing the production of this campaign ventilator anywhere in the world.
The prototype under development will be adaptable to different systems of self-inflating balloons, and can be produced in large quantities in a short time. It has already been tested in pre-clinical trials, and its industrialization, production and assembly are being studied, in coordination with ARS Norte.
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