Team is transforming manual resuscitators into automated resuscitators
Published April 24, 2020
Engineering 360 covered the UB project led by Ruogang Zhao and Chi Zhou, who are turning artificial manual breathing units, also called Ambu bags, into automated resuscitators to fill COVID-19-related supply chain ventilator shortages.
The UB team includes Zhou, associate professor, and Tianjiao Wang, PhD student, both of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Zhao, associate professor, and Albert Titus, professor and chair, both of the Department of Biomedical Engineering; and Sanjay Sethi, MD, professor, chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine and Julia Faller, DO, MS, assistant professor of anesthesiology and Clinical Director of Behling Simulation Center, both of the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
