Liverpool physicists collaborate to produce high-performance ventilators at low cost - News
Image: The High Energy Ventilator, which the HPLV prototype will be based on. Credit: CERN Physicists at the University of Liverpool are part of a team of UK scientists awarded £760k funding from UKRI to develop a robust, low-cost ventilator known as the HPLV (High Performance Low Cost Ventilator). This is focussed on helping patients in low and middle-income countries suffering from severe respiratory problems due to Covid-19 Mechanical ventilation is a small but important part of the management of pandemic virus infections which affect the lungs, including SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-1...