UF Professor of Anesthesiology Dr. Samsun Lampotang and a team of UF researchers have developed a ventilator that can be made using items from the hardware store.
As a UF mechanical engineering student decades ago, Lampotang helped respiratory therapist colleagues build a minimal-transport ventilator that became a commercial success.
Lampotang dispatched David Lizdas, the lead engineer in his lab, to Home Depot to gather items such as air-tight PVC water pipes and lawn-sprinkler valves.
Open Source Ventilator Project: https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventilator-project/ Posted by University of Florida on Friday, March 27, 2020Lampotang, an inventor with 43 patents belonging to UF, will not try to patent the ventilator, he said.
Nonetheless, Lampotang said his wish is that the ventilator won’t be needed during the coronavirus pandemic.