
In the News: Michigan Instruments delivers unprecedented number of lung simulators to aid in ventilator research and development amid shortage
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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 and…

In the News: Student team eyes next steps for ventilator designed in a bedroom lab
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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…

In the News: OperationAir Managed to Create A Functional Prototype: The AIRone!
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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 requirements.…

Researchers Develop Low-cost, Easy-to-use Emergency Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients
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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 team…

Ventilator Testing and Calibration with Michigan Instruments Lung Simulator
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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…

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…

In the News: Australian Scientists Successfully Test Ventilator Splitting in Simulated Setting
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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 a single ventilator…

In the News: MTU aiding in search for open-source devices to fight COVID-19
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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 on a solution. Joshua…


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