NASA Engineers Designed Ventilators to Help With Shortage in Coronavirus Pandemic
May 6, 2020
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as posted by the channelNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California designed a prototype ventilator to relieve the shortage of medical equipment in the coronavirus outbreak.
The device was built in 37 days and is named VITAL, meaning 'Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally.' It's intended to free traditional ventilators, so that those can be used on Covid-19 patients in severe conditions.
Dozens of engineers were involved, including mechatronics engineer Michelle Easter who usually works on robotic spacecraft parts, "It was a merging of all of the flight practices and processes that we have become accustomed to going through for developing a flight project, kind of combined with what has to happen like, right now," she says.
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