Breast Pump Based Ventilator Concept Introduction

In order to address the urgent medical crisis for COVID-19, we need a simple design for a medical ventilator which can be rapidly validated, replicated, and distributed to hospitals.

Based on WHO respiratory requirements, I am analyzing the possibility of leveraging the large number of readily available, FDA approved breast pump systems to provide intermittent positive pressure ventilation.

This is the first of several videos exploring that concept and our initial prototype.

The modifications to this commercial Spectra S2 breast pump took less than 10 minutes, and required only a Phillips head screw driver and a sharp knife.

Introduction