First Clinical Use of Rapidly Designed and Manufactured Mechanical Lung Ventilator CoroVent for COVID-19 Patients

The reports of the ventilator shortage in Italy inspired many teams worldwide to attempt designing easily manufacturable ventilators utilizing several different approaches.However, it was challenging to comply with the international standards for critical care ventilators and to provide ventilatory parameter setting compliant with the current protective ventilation recommendations according to the latest evidence-based medicine. The properties of the ventilator evaluated during its first use on a patient on October 31, 2020, proved its applicability in the clinical practice, the accuracy of ventilatory parameters and the ability to easily switch between CoroVent and a standard mechanical lung ventilator. The CoroVent project demonstrated that even a rapidly manufactured ventilator can help to manage pandemic situations if it is developed in accordance with the international technical standards for critical care ventilators.