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iSAVE re-purposes flow valves to support two patients A team of researchers in the United States has come up with splitters for ventilators that will address the shortage of the life-saving equipment. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, Bengaluru, recently approved the equipment. IndVentr is the Indian partner making the device. The team validated the device in India, and the first batch has been delivered to two hospitals in Kerala. By the month-end, 100 more units will be deployed at several hospitals. Called iSAVE (Individualized System for Augmenting Ventilator Efficacy), t...

One ventilator, two patients ISTOCK.COM   -  Getty Images/iStockphoto× Thanks to the pandemic, the world is short by about a million ventilators, according to one estimate last year. A quick-fix solution has been to multiplex — split the outlet tube so that each ventilator is shared by many patients. However, doctors frown at split ventilation because it brings a host of problems, such as lack of independent control for each patient and cross-contamination of pathogens. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, have designed a way to connect a ventilator to tw...