The new device is non-invasive and intended to free up ventilators for the most critically ill

Ventilator

Helps patient breathe by:

Ventilator

1 Pumping oxygen directly

into the patient’s lungs

and then

2 Drawing carbon

dioxide out

2

1

Humidifier

Lungs

Inflated cuff seals airway

CPAP device

Helps patients who can

already breathe on their

own by:

Flow generator

and filter

Oxygen

in

1 Pushing a constant

flow of air and oxygen

into the patient’s mask

2 Allowing patient to

exhale by themselves

Safety

valve

1

Oxygen

analyser

2

Lungs

Ventilator

CPAP device

Helps patient breathe by:

Helps patients who can

already breathe on their

own by:

Flow generator

and filter

Ventilator

1 Pumping oxygen directly

into the patient’s lungs

and then

Oxygen

in

1 Pushing a constant

flow of air and oxygen

into the patient’s mask

2 Drawing carbon

dioxide out

2 Allowing patient to

exhale by themselves

2

1

Safety

valve

1

Humidifier

Oxygen

analyser

2

Lungs

Lungs

Inflated cuff seals airway