Five Indian companies have received licenses to manufacture the affordable VITAL ventilators designed for COVID-19 patients by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Courtesy Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, and NASA/JPL-Caltech
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e have all heard a lot about ventilators in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Sadly, much of what we have heard has to do with the crises that can follow when ventilators are in short supply. A team of engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California has designed a solution to help communities around the world affected by COVID-19. Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible
By NATASA MILAS
Above: Doctors in the Department of Anesthesiology and the Human Simulation Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City test a VITAL prototype on a human patient simulator.
Locally, or VITAL, is a simplified version of a traditional ventilator used in hospitals and can be produced quickly and affordably. VITAL ventilators use one-seventh of the parts of a traditional ventilator, and because
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