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We have just launched a new page hosted by a team at the New York Medical College that lists and summarizes select, important peer-reviewed papers on the treatment of COVID-19.

In this update we present a model-based and experimental analysis of the flow profiles of the MIT Emergency Ventilator for different patient conditions, incorporating ISO standards.

We excited that the Afghan Dreamers, an all-girls robotics team based in Afghanistan, has been inspired by the MIT Emergency Ventilator work and are building their own version. Congratulations to Roya Mahboob for bringing this team together. Read about it in Fast Company.

Testing a prototype medical device is critical and we have posted details of the testing that we perform in the lab, on the bench, to detect potential mechanical, electrical and controls issue in Bench Testing. We have also updated the Key Ventilation Specifications to clarify.

Good Morning from Cambridge! The List of Alarms has been updated to clearly include the threshold conditions. Sorry that these were missing! These should now match the released code.

Along with the code release, on the Downloads page, we have updated the High Level Controls page by adding a signal waveform showing the critical timing and duration parameters that are used in the State Machines. We have updated the diagrams and, especially, detailed how Assist Control is implemented.

We have finally opened access to our prototype code GitHub on the Downloads page. Please consider this only as a reference to understand our system operation. As a small team of researchers we can prototype, however, any code written for a medical device will need to pass through many more stages of development and validation.…

Today MIT News featured the Emergency Ventilator project. In this article we share more detail on our backgrounds and philosophy. We remain hard at work and more material is coming as we address a few more key features and improve manufacturability.

New York City – Today the Spiro Wave ventilation device made its’ debut! This is the first system inspired by the MIT Emergency Ventilator to receive EUA approval, on Friday the 17th of April, and it is already headed towards NYC hospitals. Congratulations to the team at 10XBeta, Boyce Technologies and New Lab for weeks…

Working together the University of Minnesota Medical School and Boston Scientific Corporation received official FDA EUA notification as of April 14, 2020. The current list of EUA approvals is available here.