IIT Roorkee, AIIMS Rishikesh researchers develops low-cost ventilator

A low-cost advanced feature ventilator has been developed by the IIT Roorkee and AIIMS Rishikesh.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh (AIIMS Rishikesh) has jointly come up with a low-cost ICU ventilator with all advanced features. The ventilator has been named as the Prana-Vayu and can be used for several life-threatening medical emergencies that require a life support system. 

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 “The Prana-Vayu' ventilator which is specially designed to keep the cost low and at the same time to incorporate all the features of an advanced ICU ventilator in it. AIIMS Rishikesh has called this ventilator successful in terms of medical technology after due testing done in various Medical Conditions,” AIIMS said in a statement.

IIT Roorkee and AIIMS Rishikesh team had jointly developed the ventilator about two-and-a-half months ago. A team of doctoral and undergraduate students of IIT Roorkee helped the inventors at different stages of development, added the statement. The team of inventors includes Dr Debendra Tripathy from the department of anaesthesiology, AIIMS Rishikesh, and Prof. Akshay Dvivedi and Prof. Arup Kumar Das, both from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee.

The low-cost ventilator is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and facilities, to manage a wide range of critical illnesses. The control and monitoring of the ventilator can be done wirelessly, as per the statement.

It has been designed in such a manner that it can be used even in makeshift ICUs without a compressed air supply. The cost of a ventilator is less as it has been developed by the team using Make in India components.

“This ventilator has been developed at a time when the global pandemic is underway, and when there are not enough ventilators available for the treatment of Corona patients," AIIMS Director Professor Ravikant, in a statement, added.

“This collaborative achievement of AIIMS Rishikesh with IIT Roorkee will undoubtedly prove to be a boon in saving the lives of patients with severe conditions”, he added.

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