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WASHINGTON — Space launch provider Virgin Orbit announced it has developed a mass-producible bridge ventilator prototype for COVID-19 patients.
Virgin Orbit, based in Long Beach, California, worked with the Bridge Ventilator Consortium on the ventilator design, the company said in a March 30 news release. The consortium is led by the University of California Irvine and the University of Texas at Austin.
High-end, ICU-capable ventilators are in short supply as the pandemic worsened in recent weeks. The bridge ventilators can be used to help free up the more advanced ventilators for the most critical patients.
“Pending clearance by the Food and Drug Administration, Virgin Orbit aims to commence production at its Long Beach manufacturing facility in early April,” Virgin Orbit said.
“On a normal day, we’re building rockets and other equipment for space launch; we are not medical doctors nor are we usually manufacturers of medical devices. But we do have a team of incredibly innovative and agile thinkers,” said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart.
The company said it can scale up production at its Long Beach facility, and potentially increase manufacturing capacity as soon as the new device is reproducible and production-ready.
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With guidance from medical experts at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), Virgin Orbit has developed a new mass-producible bridge ventilator to help in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Our device has now been authorized for use in the U.S. during the COVID-19 National Emergency. We have begun production, with the first 100 units expected to be delivered before the end of April; and we anticipate delivering hundreds of units per week going forward.
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The Virgin Orbit ventilator is intended to provide automated, continuous or intermittent ventilatory support for patients suffering from respiratory failure. The beauty of the device is its simplicity, making it easy to deploy in a hospital or in the field, and extremely fast and inexpensive to manufacture.
The ventilator is in essence a very simple, very reliable, mechanical device designed to automate common manual resuscitators (also known as bag valve masks, and often referred to colloquially by the proprietary name “Ambu-bag”). The system can be used to treat moderate hypoxic and/or hypercarbic respiratory failure – in most settings, this would include the majority of COVID-19 patients – freeing up existing, more sophisticated ventilators to be used on patients with the most severe symptoms.