{"id":105100,"date":"2020-04-10T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/university-of-florida-led-ventilator-design-clears-first-fda-review-offers-hope-for-coronavirus-patients"},"modified":"2020-04-10T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:42:18","slug":"university-of-florida-led-ventilator-design-clears-first-fda-review-offers-hope-for-coronavirus-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/university-of-florida-led-ventilator-design-clears-first-fda-review-offers-hope-for-coronavirus-patients","title":{"rendered":"University of Florida-led ventilator design clears first FDA review, offers hope for coronavirus patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/university-of-florida-led-ventilator-design-clears-first-fda-review-offers-hope-for-coronavirus-patients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of University of Florida engineers developed a cheap and easily sourced ventilator made with PVC, sprinkler valves, and Arduino. The design can be made for around $125 and could help with the demand for ventilators in the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A ventilator envisioned by a University of Florida engineer and built with do-it-yourself parts gained first-step FDA authorization this week, offering hope that it could be in use within weeks at hospitals around the world where COVID-19 patients have overwhelmed supplies of traditional medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The ventilator, composed of parts readily available for less than $250, can be assembled in less than an hour. UF has made <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/simulation.health.ufl.edu\/technology-development\/open-source-ventilator-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">plans and software available<\/a> free over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe testing is obviously important right now because the worst-case scenario is that a patient will need three weeks of ventilator support, so we want to make sure this will run non-stop for three weeks,\u201d said Samsun Lampotang, a professor of anesthesiology in the UF College of Medicine, who led design of the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of University of Florida engineers developed a cheap and easily sourced ventilator made with PVC, sprinkler valves, and Arduino. The design can be made for around $125 and could help with the demand for ventilators in the COVID-19 pandemic. A ventilator envisioned by a University of Florida engineer and built with do-it-yourself parts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}