Johns Hopkins is testing a small robot attached to a touchscreen ventilator so that no one has to wear protective equipment and risk infection entering an intensive care unit room.
back in March, the Hopkins Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics reached out to us, and we've been working with Dr Kreuger and his team to come up with this. Robots. That attach is to the ventilator screen and allows us to control the settings on the ventilator from outside the room. This is something that's that's totally new and unique but has a real chance Thio make a big difference in health care. So a mechanical ventilator breathes for the patient that weaken set the exact amount of oxygen we need to to support their lungs beyond the capacity that they could do for themselves. When they're very sick. Thio normally control ventilator. We have to go in the room with the basic right there on a normal shift. It wouldn't be on common. Thio go in 68 10 12 times in a 12 hour shifts or even mawr, depending on how many settings changes that need to be made. So let's say we need to make a quick change on the oxygen percentage for this patients. So instead of going through the whole process of dawning and golfing, or PP, we couldn't do that change right on here I can tap on the screen to have the robot bring the stylists right to where I need it on the screen and then tap Thio have it make make the change for me all without having to go in the room. We have a little robot finger that it's moved in left and right up and down and in and out on the screen so anywhere I can touch on the screen. The robot would go and I can tap on the position and the finger goes in. And actually, it's the ventilator. Having the ability to control this ventilator from outside the room is really valuable. Number one. We can save a lot of PPE, too. It reduces the risk of exposure to us for having to go in the room and then three is the chance of this being really a force multiplier for our respiratory therapists? Our staff. The respiratory therapists are a finite supply so we can spend less time making these minor settings changes. It could pay huge dividends for us
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