Beyond ventilators: Princeton engineers design, build and program a noninvasive breathing system for COVID-19 patients
John Sullivan, Office of Engineering Communications Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research Jan. 29, 2021 10 a.m. On April 1, 2020, as the pandemic threatened to overwhelm area hospitals, Andrew Leifer was looking for a way to help. The Princeton University physicist connected with doctors at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia who were working to prevent a looming shortage in machines used to keep patients breathing. Penn Medicine, which runs hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, needed specialized machines to monitor the breathing patterns and flow...
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