We choose a Low Tech approach in order to have an emergency ventilator complying with 3 premises:
1) easy to build without complex/technological elements or that are complicated to source.
2) easy to train, easy to use, easy to fix.
3) fast to mass-produce and at a very low unit price (around 350€ in developing countries- around 850 in EU).
To any qualified healthcare professional who is in an extreme situation with a shortage of assisted ventilators and needs a device of last resort that automates an AMBU type manual resuscitator, usually found in ambulances. This device can be built in a short time and with readily available materials. It is a device designed to avoid life and death situations in emergency triages, not to replace other superior, professional and much safer devices.
We choose a Low Tech approach in order to have an emergency ventilator complying with 3 premises:
1) easy to build without complex/technological elements or that are complicated to source.
2) easy to train, easy to use, easy to fix.
3) fast to mass-produce and at a very low unit price (around 350€ in developing countries- around 850 in EU).
To any qualified healthcare professional who is in an extreme situation with a shortage of assisted ventilators and needs a device of last resort that automates an AMBU type manual resuscitator, usually found in ambulances. This device can be built in a short time and with readily available materials. It is a device designed to avoid life and death situations in emergency triages, not to replace other superior, professional and much safer devices.
