Texas Engineers Work In Labs, Living Rooms To Invent Ventilator Shortage Solutions
Raghave Upadhyaya and his roommate Adam Saleh were watching news coverage of Italy’s ventilator shortage when they decided they had to do something about it.
The two, both recent University of Texas at Austin biomedical engineering graduates, are now among a fleet of inventors across Texas and the rest of the country. They are all trying to create a simpler, low-cost breathing ventilator, the breathing machine that pushes air to the lungs.
“It’s a Ferrari, you know. It’s a $30,000 machine that’s in hospital rooms and ICU beds and it can do all these fancy things and there are so many settings that you can control,” said Upadhyaya. “But really what you need is something like a ’94 Camry.”
Upadhyaya and Saleh are consulting with their former professors and new contacts at UT for advice on their project. But primarily they are working from their living room.
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