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7 Reasons Your EMS Units Need a Life-Stat, Stat!

7 Reasons EMS Units Need a Life-Stat, Stat!

Michigan Instruments is a proven partner of hospitals and EMS Units around the globe, helping them provide patients with the best chance of survival through Automated CPR. Our Life-Stat mechanical CPR device provides EMS Units with a device…
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All Ventilators are NOT Created Equal

In the News: All Ventilators are NOT created equal….

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In these recent months of the COVID-19 crisis, many companies and institutions have taken on ventilator design and manufacturing for the first time. With our long history of involvement with researchers and ventilator manufacturers,…
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Michigan Instruments delivers unprecedented number of lung simulators to aid in ventilator research and development amid shortage

Michigan Instruments Delivers Lung Simulators for Ventilator R&D

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Michigan Instruments, a leading manufacturer in Lung Simulation, has delivered an unprecedented number of lung simulators to organizations around the world to help in respiratory technology research and critical ventilator development…
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Student Team Advances Bedroom-Built Ventilator

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Cornell ECE Ph.D. student Landon Ivy assembled a team to work on a new project: produce a safe, simple and reliable ICU mechanical ventilator. Landon Ivy started his Ph.D. work with Professor Amit Lal’s SonicMEMS Lab, developing…
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OperationAir Creates Functional AIRone Prototype

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Our first functional prototype is a fact: the AIRone. Last week the AIRone has been a subject to various tests. Using a mechanical phantom of the lungs we were able to do the functional tests that determine if the prototype meets our…
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researchers develop low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Researchers Develop Low-Cost Emergency Ventilator

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A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.  The…
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ventilator testing and calibration with michigan instruments lung simulators

Testing & Calibrating Ventilators with Lung Simulators

When it comes to evaluating ventilator performance, a lung simulator is an invaluable resource. The testing of a ventilator should take place before it’s ever used on patients in a clinical environment. Periodic testing is also needed…
Read more
NASA designed its own ventilator prototype in just 37 days blog image

In the News: NASA Designed Its Own Ventilator Prototype in Just 37 Days

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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have come up with a design for a high-pressure ventilator that can mechanically breathe for patients with the most severe cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus)—and…
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Coping with COVID-19: Australian scientists successfully test ventilator splitting in simulated setting blog image

Australian Scientists Successfully Test Ventilator Splitting

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A team of researchers from the Royal Women’s Hospital, Monash University and the Alfred Hospital has successfully tested, in a simulated environment, the potential to ventilate two lungs of different compliances from…
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MTU aiding in search for open-source devices to fight COVID-19 blog image

MTU Supports Open-Source COVID-19 Device Research

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HOUGHTON — As COVID-19 cases have surged, the shortage of working ventilators has become one of the biggest obstacles in treating patients. A Michigan Technological University professor is one of the people working…
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7 Reasons Your EMS Units Need a Life-Stat, Stat!

7 Reasons EMS Units Need a Life-Stat, Stat!

Michigan Instruments is a proven partner of hospitals and EMS Units around the globe, helping them provide patients with the best chance of survival through Automated CPR. Our Life-Stat mechanical CPR device provides EMS Units with a device…
Read more
All Ventilators are NOT Created Equal

In the News: All Ventilators are NOT created equal….

,
In these recent months of the COVID-19 crisis, many companies and institutions have taken on ventilator design and manufacturing for the first time. With our long history of involvement with researchers and ventilator manufacturers,…
Read more
Michigan Instruments delivers unprecedented number of lung simulators to aid in ventilator research and development amid shortage

Michigan Instruments Delivers Lung Simulators for Ventilator R&D

,
Michigan Instruments, a leading manufacturer in Lung Simulation, has delivered an unprecedented number of lung simulators to organizations around the world to help in respiratory technology research and critical ventilator development…
Read more
Blog Image Cornell University Blog

Student Team Advances Bedroom-Built Ventilator

,
Cornell ECE Ph.D. student Landon Ivy assembled a team to work on a new project: produce a safe, simple and reliable ICU mechanical ventilator. Landon Ivy started his Ph.D. work with Professor Amit Lal’s SonicMEMS Lab, developing…
Read more
Blog Image from Operation Air

OperationAir Creates Functional AIRone Prototype

,
Our first functional prototype is a fact: the AIRone. Last week the AIRone has been a subject to various tests. Using a mechanical phantom of the lungs we were able to do the functional tests that determine if the prototype meets our…
Read more
researchers develop low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Researchers Develop Low-Cost Emergency Ventilator

,
A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.  The…
Read more
ventilator testing and calibration with michigan instruments lung simulators

Testing & Calibrating Ventilators with Lung Simulators

When it comes to evaluating ventilator performance, a lung simulator is an invaluable resource. The testing of a ventilator should take place before it’s ever used on patients in a clinical environment. Periodic testing is also needed…
Read more
NASA designed its own ventilator prototype in just 37 days blog image

In the News: NASA Designed Its Own Ventilator Prototype in Just 37 Days

,
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have come up with a design for a high-pressure ventilator that can mechanically breathe for patients with the most severe cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus)—and…
Read more
Coping with COVID-19: Australian scientists successfully test ventilator splitting in simulated setting blog image

Australian Scientists Successfully Test Ventilator Splitting

,
A team of researchers from the Royal Women’s Hospital, Monash University and the Alfred Hospital has successfully tested, in a simulated environment, the potential to ventilate two lungs of different compliances from…
Read more
MTU aiding in search for open-source devices to fight COVID-19 blog image

MTU Supports Open-Source COVID-19 Device Research

,
HOUGHTON — As COVID-19 cases have surged, the shortage of working ventilators has become one of the biggest obstacles in treating patients. A Michigan Technological University professor is one of the people working…
Read more

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