Our prototype of an affordable, easy-to-replicate ventilator is here to break standards, to challenge the way we think about healthcare, making ventilation affordable for everyone, everywhere, so that we are better prepared to protect people that need them the most.

 

The FIVENT unit is a portable device capable of providing both pressure and volume-controlled mechanical ventilation as a cost-effective, easy to build, functional solution. The device is made up of a control module with an LCD display, a bellow-piston air pump, and a patient airway circuit with two solenoid valves, a PEEP and a HME valve, two pressure sensors, and a single-use ventilator mask. Furthermore, the mask can be detached to connect to standard hospital ventilator masks, and oxygen saturation can be implemented, given that we made our device compatible with oxygen tanks. FIVENT runs on 12V DC current, has a battery back-up power source to power the ventilator and is driven by an Arduino codebase controlled by a proprietary program.

 

FIVENT, unlike other solutions, has the ability to do both pressure and volume control, as by using the bellow-piston mechanism, we know the volume being fed to the patient. Furthermore, our device, does not need to be completed by a blower nor any other additional external components, making it even more accessible and ready-to-use.