Researchers from the ibs.GRANADA participate in the design of a new artificial respirator for patients with COVID19

Valve prototype designed at the University of Granada.

A multidisciplinary group of researchers made up of engineers, biologists and doctors from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA), participates in the design of pressure and oxygen flow control valves for artificial respirators, specifically the model REEspirator23, born at the University of Oviedo.

It is a respirator designed to assist Coronavirus patients, which has already been tested successfully in animals, and is under study by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).

The group of researchers has been in charge of carrying out the necessary calculations to develop the prototype of some valves that could begin to be produced in a short period of time and on a large scale. In addition, a new design is being initiated that could be even simpler, more robust and easy to scale to hundreds or thousands of units with great speed and efficiency.

The group is coordinated by the UGR professors Guillermo Rus (Co-investigator responsible for the group TEC12-Biomechanics) y Juan Antonio Marchal (Researcher in charge of the group TEC16-Advanced Therapies: differentiation, regeneration and cancer), and it is made up of more than ten researchers from their respective research groups. All of them are working voluntarily and firmly committed to providing solutions in the fight against COVID-19.

Source: Ideal news