TNPSC Thervupettagam

Automated ventilators

April 5 , 2020 1453 days 762 0
  • The Department of Science and Technology tied up with the Wipro 3D to jointly build proto type of automated ventilators.
  • The ventilators will help in meeting urgent requirement of Covid-19 crisis.
  • The ventilators are called AMBU (Artificial Manual Breathing Unit).
  • They are hand held devices that will provide automatic pressurized ventilation to the patients that are not breathing or facing extreme difficulties in breathing.
  • The AMBU is portable and hence will be ideal to suit the temporary hospital beds set up in railway coaches.
  • It has provisions to add PEEP (positive end expiratory pressure) as an extra component in order to maintain pressure.

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