RT Journal Article
T1 ResUHUrge: A Low Cost and Fully Functional Ventilator Indicated for Application in COVID-19 Patients
A1 Vivas Fernández, Francisco José
A1 Sánchez Segovia, José
A1 Martel Bravo, Ismael
A1 Andújar Márquez, José Manuel
AB Although the cure for the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) will come in the form ofpharmaceutical solutions and/or a vaccine, one of the only ways to face it at present is to guaranteethe best quality of health for patients, so that they can overcome the disease on their own. Therefore,and considering that COVID-19 generally causes damage to the respiratory system (in the form oflung infection), it is essential to ensure the best pulmonary ventilation for the patient. However,depending on the severity of the disease and the health condition of the patient, the situation canbecome critical when the patient has respiratory distress or becomes unable to breathe on his/her own.In that case, the ventilator becomes the lifeline of the patient. This device must keep patients stableuntil, on their own or with the help of medications, they manage to overcome the lung infection.However, with thousands or hundreds of thousands of infected patients, no country has enoughventilators. If this situation has become critical in the Global North, it has turned disastrous indeveloping countries, where ventilators are even more scarce. This article shows the race againsttime of a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Huelva, UHU, southwest of Spain,to develop an inexpensive, multifunctional, and easy-to-manufacture ventilator, which has beennamed ResUHUrge. The device meets all medical requirements and is developed with open-sourcehardware and software.
PB MDPI
SN 1424-8220
YR 2020
FD 2020-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19512
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19512
LA eng
NO Vivas Fernández, F. J., Sánchez Segovia, J., Martel Bravo, I. ... Andújar Márquez, J. M. (2020). ResUHUrge: A Low Cost and Fully Functional Ventilator Indicated for Application in COVID-19 Patients. Sensors, 20(23), 6774. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s20236774
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026