NEW DELHI : With shortage of ventilators rising up to be the biggest challenge, US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has decided to share its design of cost-effective emergency ventilators for rapid scale up.
The institute said it would publish the clinical and design considerations online to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.
However, the prototype under development is yet to be approved by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventilators are required for Covid-19 patients, as they tend to develop acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS).
As number of severely ill patients rise across countries, one of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is