Engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for Covid-19 patients based on a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.
An automated system that can be fabricated and assembled in just 15 minutes was developed around the pre-existing bags. The ventilator costs only $500 per unit, a drastic reduction on the $50,000 price tag of some emergency ventilators.
