Nov 20, 2020

Can Car Parts Save Lives?

How automotive supply lines are helping to save the day — This year, most people have likely heard about ventilators made from automobile parts. Sourcing ventilator prototypes at least partially from unconventional sources has become widespread. This is because those parts are cheaper and more readily available. The practice also serves to prevent shortages in the medical supply line. RespiraWorks is…

Ventilators

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Oct 27, 2020

RespiraWorks is Merging with BostonVent!

Over the course of the past few weeks, RespiraWorks has been merging with another project. BostonVent is a volunteer-based ventilator project, made up of the Covid Innovation group via Mass General/Brigham. The team also has affiliations with MIT and Harvard Medical School. …

Ventilator

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RespiraWorks is Merging with BostonVent!

BostonVent Ventilator and GUI Prototype Images

Over the course of the past few weeks, RespiraWorks has been merging with another project. BostonVent is a volunteer-based ventilator project,
made up of the Covid Innovation group via Mass General/Brigham.
The team also has affiliations with MIT and Harvard Medical School. …

Oct 7, 2020

Endurance in the Pandemic

Staying Active and Informed in a Prolonged Crisis When it comes to a massive pandemic, none of us have prior experience to draw upon. There’s no precedent for managing something of this magnitude. Reading the news has become a daunting task. Every week, a tidal wave of Coronavirus news and statistics washes over the population. It can be…

Pandemic

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Sep 3, 2020

Last call for the RespiraWorks Webinar! Don’t miss it!

Have you heard yet? Friday at 9AM PST, RespiraWorks will be having a joint webinar with PolySpectra. Who is PolySpectra? What are they going to be conversing about? Is this going to be an ally discussion or an enemy debate? A comedic duality or an education team? …

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Last call for the RespiraWorks Webinar! Don’t miss it!

Aug 21, 2020

Have you ever thought of making your own medical equipment?

Have you ever thought of making your own medical equipment? Take a deep breath in. Take a deep breath out. Isn’t it amazing how such a simple action can make the mind feel so different? Breathing is something that we do constantly on a daily basis, but it is also…

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Aug 5, 2020

Separating COVID-19 From Politics

What an honorable surprise! Prelude: Did you hear the news about RespiraWorks competing in the CoVent-19 Challenge? If so, here’s a little sequel! If not, please feel free to scroll through our previous Medium articles to find a description. To briefly summarize it, the ventilator design that our team created…

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Jul 23, 2020

The New Creation Has Arrived!

Since the dawn of RespiraWorks’ time, 100% of the focus has been on the creation of a new type of ventilator that can be more accessible and affordable to medical professionals in low-income regions all over the globe. …

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Jul 15, 2020

RespiraWorks Reaped the Radiating Reward!

Does the title “CoVent-19” ring a bell, by any chance? Not COVID-19, but CoVent-19. CoVent-19 is a challenging event that merged together intelligent minds to examine multiple strategies for tackling a traumatic obstacle that is currently being faced by the entire world. It has been acknowledged that there are many…

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Jun 27, 2020

Because the World Needs to Breathe

For the past few months, people in countries all over the world have been hit with COVID-19 and share a common goal of killing the virus, healing the victims of it, and preventing another outbreak to the best of their ability. Three extremely challenging obstacles that come along with these…

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Jun 20, 2020

RespiraWorks has been accepted as one of the finalists in the CoVent-19 Challenge!

RespiraWorks has been accepted as one of the finalists in the CoVent-19 Challenge! This is so exciting! What is this challenge, you ask? What made RespiraWorks become one of the finalists, you ask? Well… In many places around the globe, there are people who are wanting to help COVID-19 patients…

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