Development of an Intelligent BiPAP Machine with Oxygen Support

Abstract

Most of the countries in the world have very ‘centralized’ healthcare networks; with sophisticated emergency help available only in hospitals in major cities. This results in loss of life and poor access to healthcare that is bottlenecked by long and inconvenient travel distances and their associated costs. This problem, while prevalent for a long time, was particularly damaging during COVID 19’ as hospitals exceeded their human resource and equipment bandwidth and smaller clinics were no help as they did not have the necessary equipment. The purpose of this project is to produce very affordable but sophisticated emergency breathing devices that are fit for small clinics and ambulances. This drives business from a high volume of small healthcare facilities and makes the local healthcare system of developing countries more secure and robust. The first product that has been developed to this end are hybrid CPAP/BiPap machines with full functionality that are cheap in retail and fall into the budgetary range of town-scale clinics.