3D Lung

Inspiration
To date, more than 1.5 million cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed worldwide. A big challenge during this outbreak is to organize the healthcare. Preliminary data (from countries with available data) show that around 20-30% of diagnosed COVID-19 cases are hospitalized and around 4% have severe illness. And number of cases surges in the coming days, experts are warning of a serious problem: a lack of ventilators for patients who need them to stay alive. In the US alone, the COVID-19 pandemic may cause ventilator shortages on the order of 300,000-700,000 units (based on CDC Pandemic Response Plans).

We recognize the critical need of ventilators as all the existing ventilators in hospitals are used up. We hope that our system may serve as bridge device for respirators and clinicians trained in respiratory therapy of COVID-19 patients.

What it does
3D lung is a simple low-cost emergency ventilator where most of the parts are produced using a 3D printer, and assembl