Mercedes, the world champion of Formula One, announced on Tuesday that it has developed new breathing apparatus designs, developed by the British Health Services, to help those infected with the "Covid-19" virus.
CPAP helps patients with breathing difficulties with a lung infection for whom oxygen masks are not enough.
And gives the device the possibility not to put patients in the intensive care units and not intubate.
The British government has ordered 10,000 of these devices, which are produced across 40 machines, at an average of 1,000 a day at the Mercedes Technical Center in Brixworth, in central England.
After being based at Brixworth, the cell that built the engines that led the team to monopolizing the manufacturers and drivers titles from 2014 to 2019, the Mercedes team joined the "Project Bitline" campaign by developing a respirator in a joint venture with University College London ("University College London"). Its specifications are approved by the UK's National Health Service, NHS.
"Since the project was announced, we have received an incredible number of requests for CBAP equipment from all over the world," said Andy Cowell, director of the center.
"Making manufacturing designs and specifications open to everyone will allow companies all over the world to produce these devices quickly and on a large scale, which will support the global battle against the Covid-19 virus," he added.
He continued, "Governments, industrial producers in the sector, academics and health experts" will have access to these designs but also "on the special materials, materials and tools used during the rapid development of the prototypes, in addition to the manufacturing times for each part."
"These vital devices are very easy to manufacture and can be produced quickly. We hope that, by publishing these designs publicly, they will be used to improve the resistance of health services preparing for the Coved-19 wave in the world," said Rebecca Shipley, director of the Institute of Sanitary Engineering at University College London.
A copy of this device, which increases the flow of air and oxygen to the lungs, has been used in hospitals in Italy and China to help Covid-19 patients with acute lung infections.
Teams from the university and Mercedes have reverse engineering the device, saying it can quickly manufacture it "in the thousands" and supply it to hospitals in Britain, with the increased demand for these devices due to the tremendous increase in the number of cases confirmed to be infected with the virus.
Reports from Italy revealed that about 50e percent of the patients who used this device did not need the mechanical respirators that require anesthesia and a tube to be inserted into the patient's trachea according to "University College London," adding in her statement Sunday that clinical trials on 100 devices It will take place in the university hospital.
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