Coventor (ventilator)

2020: The beginning of serial production of ventilators for $1000

In the middle of April, 2020 Boston Scientific announced readiness to begin production of inexpensive ventilators. The company needed to wait for resolution of regulators of the USA, however in connection with COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic terms will not drag on.

The university of Minnesota which acted as the partner of producer of the medical equipment, stated in the press release that the Coventor device developed by researchers of the university and one of his graduates will become an inexpensive alternative for the ventilators used in chambers of intensive therapy.

Boston Scientific announced readiness to begin production of inexpensive ventilators

The initial prototype of Coventor was adapted from the range of available parts taking into account the size of a desktop and a possibility cheap of production. He does not demand supply of oxygen or a pressured air, unlike the ventilators which are available on sale. If oxygen is unavailable, the device the patient begins to give to a trachea external air using a normal out-patient ventilating bag. The frame of the device can be received by metal printing, 3D - printings or is modified from consumer goods. The representative of Boston Scientific told that devices will be on sale less than for $1000. Traditional ventilators can cost from $20,000 to $25,000.

Researchers from Minnesota said that all drawings of the device will be submitted in open access that other producers around the world could use them in own production processes. Boston Scientific will become initial producer.

We hope that Coventor will be useful in those clinical conditions when traditional ventilators are unavailable — the anesthesiologist from the University of Minnesota doctor Stephen Richardson in the press release noted.[1]

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