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Dr. Christopher Nguan is one among a bunch of volunteers who’re showcasing new improvements within the struggle towards COVID-19.

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A Vancouver theatre is about to be reworked right into a showcase for progressive medical tools developed in Canada to struggle COVID-19.

Among the many merchandise is a ventilator that may be constructed with regionally sourced supplies anyplace on this planet for below $500. The brand new gravity-based ventilator is supposed to deal with a scarcity of ventilators which might be vital for saving the lives of sufferers with acute COVID-19.

A sort of “discipline hospital” to show new merchandise to struggle COVID-19 is being constructed within the Arts Club by Olympic Village over the subsequent 4 weeks.

Dr. Christopher Nguan mentioned COSMIC Medical has grown since February right into a multi-disciplinary and collaborative group of greater than 130 scientists, docs, medical college students, engineers, physicists, and designers.

“We’re open-source, non-profit, all the things is on the desk. We’re absolutely clear,” mentioned Nguan, a kidney transplant surgeon at Vancouver Basic Hospital and affiliate professor on the College of B.C.

“All we’re involved in is making an affect on COVID. No matter it takes for us to do this, that’s what we need to do.”

COSMIC stands for Collective Open Supply Medical Improvements for COVID-19. Nguan is one among three co-leads together with Alexander Waslen, a fourth-year mechanical engineering scholar at UBC, and Philip Edgcumbe, a medical scholar at UBC and biomedical engineer.

The group’s first success is gVent. Invented in six weeks, it’s a low-cost ventilator that two individuals can construct in three hours. A ventilator helps a critically in poor health affected person breathe when she or he can’t achieve this on their very own.

Conventional low-cost ventilators are between $5,000 and $50,000, and makes use of expertise to blow or compress air to ship it to a affected person.

However Chase Crisfield, a Rossland resident and medical scholar on the College of B.C., had a brand new concept for a ventilator.

“Once I noticed among the different designs,” Crisfield mentioned in a video about gVent, “I felt they lacked a physiological mechanism behind them. I wished to develop one thing that was mild on the lungs, understanding how fragile and infected the lung tissue will be when somebody is sick.”

Nguan mentioned gVent’s distinctive design doesn’t use a compressor or blower.

“We now have an inverted piston with a water seal. It’s sort of like having a water bottle with the underside lower off and also you squish it down right into a bucket of water. That head of stress you generate by pushing the bottle down and trapped air contained in the bottle is the air that goes to the affected person.”

The gVent’s easy design, he mentioned, makes it excellent for making it rapidly in catastrophe conditions and for combating COVID-19 in growing international locations in Latin America and Africa the place conventional ventilators are in brief provide.

COSMIC Medical’s ventilator was awarded $100,000 as prime prize in Roche Canada COVID-19 Innovation Challenge, beating out greater than 840 candidates.

COSMIC Medical has a functioning, patented ventilator and is awaiting Well being Canada approval, a course of that would take till August.

However the group isn’t ready. Nguan mentioned COSMIC Medical will probably be publishing designs on-line as quickly as they work out easy methods to shield the group and its volunteers from any authorized legal responsibility. He expects that to occur inside a couple of weeks.


A ‘bubble helmet’ in improvement by COSMIC Medical in Vancouver.

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Different COVID-19 merchandise the group is growing embody a snorkel masks and bubble helmet.

Nguan mentioned COSMIC Medical will probably be utilizing Studio A within the Arts Membership to indicate how its merchandise work collectively in a hospital setting. As properly, it can present a spot for COSMIC Medical volunteers to bodily meet in a single area. As a co-founder, Nguan mentioned he has solely met 5 individuals bodily and 30 individuals remotely through Zoom.

He additionally plans for the theatre to be a venue the place different native teams can carry their COVID-19 medical designs and prototypes and see which of them are greatest.

“All people desires to make a distinction,” he mentioned about COSMIC Medical volunteers. “We’re solely in it for the good thing about sufferers and health-care suppliers.”

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