“Just had a long engineering discussion with Medtronic about state-of-the-art ventilators,” Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday. Medtronic tweeted that the talks also involved Tesla. And TechCrunch notes that Musk tweeted on Friday that both Tesla and SpaceX employees are “working on ventilators…”:
His confirmation on Twitter that both of the companies he leads are working on ventilators comes a day after New…
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Risky Hack Could Double Access To Ventilators As Coronavirus Peaks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: An emergency medicine physician says she and a colleague invented a way to connect four patients to a single ventilator, a hack that could significantly increase the capacity of overburdened hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors Greg Neyman and Charelene Irvin Babcock published a pilot study of the technique in Academic Emergency Medicine…
iFixit Is Building a Repair Database For Medical Equipment, and It Needs Your Help
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Repair specialist iFixit is building a database filled with repair information for the world’s hospital equipment in anticipation of the increased demand caused by COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. In particular, it’s calling for repair manuals for ventilators and BiPAP machines that can be used as ventilators. iFixit’s database…
Gaming Peripheral Company Razer Shifts Some Production To Surgical Masks
Razer CEO Ming-Liang Tan announced on Thursday that the company will shift a number of its manufacturing lines from producing its own products to making surgical masks. Polygon reports: As COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, continues to spread around the world, healthcare officials are reporting shortages of essential resources, including surgical masks. Tan said Razer intends donate up…