Development of a Simple Air- and O2-Powered Ventilator for Care of COVID-19 Patients

该项目旨在推进一种新颖、简单的通风机概念，从最初的概念，通过开发概念验证原型，到基于实验室的设计验证。这种通风机设计与市场上现有产品的主要区别在于，它主要是由现成的组件组装而成，几乎没有活动部件，并且成本极低（比目前大多数通风机型号便宜大约十倍）。最终设计将向公众开放，以便在未来的COVID-19和/或其他呼吸系统疾病浪潮中广泛采用，以备需要在重症监护病房中使用呼吸机进行高水平住院治疗。

This project aims to advance a novel, simple ventilator concept from an initial concept through development of a proof-of-concept prototype, to lab-based validation of the design. The main difference between this ventilator design and existing products in the market are that it is to be assembled mostly from off-the-shelf components, has almost no moving parts, and will be extremely low-cost (approximately ten times less expensive than most current ventilator models). The final design will be openly available to enable widespread adoption for manufacturing in case future waves of COVID-19 and/or other respiratory diseases require high levels of hospitalization in intensive care with ventilators. The low cost of the proposed ventilator design should enable adoption of larger numbers of devices and may enable ventilation-supported care in developing nations where traditional ventilator costs are prohibitive. The outcome of the overall project will thus be highly significant for health outcomes in Canada and around the world for dealing with the current and future pandemics.