The biggest design feats of COVID-19 are medical devices that can be Frankensteined together with the parts that are available—not necessarily the parts you want. “We never came into this with the ...

(RTTNews) - Medical devices maker Medtronic plc (MDT) announced Monday that it is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett 560 (PB 560) ventilator to help increase global ...

DUBLIN, March 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced it is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett™ ...

A new low-cost ventilator design invented during COVID-19 could address the global shortage of ventilators for other respiratory diseases. The ventilators, which are required by patients in intensive ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have invented an emergency ventilator that could help save the lives of patients suffering from ...

Ventilators are key in the treating the most dire cases of coronavirus. The exponential growth of infections, and the number of patients in respiratory distress, has outpaced the number of available ...

One of the biggest issues medical professionals are now grappling with due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a shortage of ventilators in hospitals. This acute need for ventilators has led to ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today introduced a new open-source ventilator system reference design that ...

As the cases of COVID-19 continue to climb ever more companies are trying to produce supplies to help. Companies of all sizes, from huge ones like GE, GM, and Ford to more niche ones like Dyson, have ...

The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic has left many hospitals without enough ventilators, but companies like Tesla are trying to design new, easily built machines. Now, scientists from NASA's Jet ...

Elon Musk says he'll make ventilators at Tesla's solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York. Medtronic is sharing design specifications for a basic ventilator model with any company that wants to help ...

Engineers are developing 3D-printed ventilator splitters. But the practice of sharing ventilators has garnered mixed reviews across the healthcare system. Medical professionals who speak out against ...