Over 5000 companies offering their support and over 7500
members of staff contributing to the effort. However there were companies
without medical experience, such as excavator maker JCB, and other that had
experience said they had no response to their offers of help: SPEC SAYS
TO CALL AN ELECTRONIC ENGINEER TO MEET BATTERY CHALLENGE
The challenge worked with the paraPAC from Smiths, and the
Vivo65 and Nippy4+ from Breas Medical in Sweden, and helped guide one
newly adapted model, the Penlon ES2,
through regulatory approval. The CE approval for this has just been received,
allowing the units to be exported to other countries that need ventilators.
Just over 10,000 units from Smiths and Penlon have been
delivered, along with 4,000 from existing manufacturer Breas Medical . Over
2,500 have been imported from abroad. A shipment of 150 Vivo65 and Nippy4+
ventilator units arrived from Sweden in May.
Four new designs were assessed as meeting the requirements
of the UK’s medical regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency. The Dyson/TTP CoVent, the
Babcock Zephyr+,
the Cambridge Consultants Veloci-Vent and the Swagelok Piran Vent were deemed
to have achieved a performance level which met the MHRA’s requirements.
The independent testing organisation (MD-TEC) concluded that
they would have all been clinically usable as pandemic ventilators. However
these designs were not progressed to mass production as part of the Ventilator
Challenge due to reduced demand, said the UK
There's lots of ventilator coverage on our dedicated page
on ventilator
technology and production which will still be updated
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