{"id":20424,"date":"2020-04-24T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/?p=20424"},"modified":"2020-04-25T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T06:53:25","slug":"nasa-developed-a-ventilator-to-treat-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-next-tech.com\/development\/nasa-developed-a-ventilator-to-treat-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Developed a Ventilator to treat COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration<\/a> announced on Thursday that, in just 37 days, it has successfully developed a prototype ventilator that can be used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The so-called VITAL – a familiar locally for ventilator intervention technology – still requires FDA approval, and is intended to exempt more traditional ventilators for severe COVID cases.<\/p>\n

“We concentrate in spacecraft, maybe not medical-device fabricating,” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Michael Watkins explained in a press release. “However, superb technology, rigorous testing and rapid prototyping are a few of our specialties.”<\/p>\n

Notably, the very important apparatus really isn’t the marginally altered BiPAPs and CPAPs — more broadly utilized as a treatment for sleep apnea — given by Elon Musk. It’s made to be utilized in an invasive fashion, though it won’t continue so long as a more conventional ventilator.<\/p>\n

“Like most ventilators, VITAL needs patients to be sedated and a oxygen tube inserted in their airway to breathe,” explains NASA. “The new device would not replace present hospital ventilators, which may last decades and are constructed to deal with a wider array of health care difficulties. Rather, VITAL is meant to last a few months and is especially tailored to COVID-19 patients”<\/p>\n