Following NASA and Dyson, Fitbit has additionally built up a simple to utilize and minimal effort ventilator intended to treat coronavirus patients.
Uncovered on Wednesday, the Fitbit Flow is a crisis ventilator that has been structured in discussion with medicinal services laborers neutralizing COVID-19.
Fitbit Launches Low-Cost Emergency Ventilator ‘Fitbit Flow’ for …
It has different sensors on-board to help screen the patient and has a reasonable window through which specialists and medicinal services laborers can see the robotized respiratory pack. Standard ventilator capacities, for example, oxygen weight and volume control are additionally present.
Be that as it may, the Fitbit Flow is anything but a lasting arrangement as it just goes about as a band-aid to keep patients alive until they can be put on standard machines. In this way, ordinary ventilators are as yet essential.
Fitbit explore researcher Dr. Tony Faranesh said that the objective is to help life if a machine isn’t accessible in a crisis. He included that they are as of now working out the morals in choosing who gets the ventilator and who doesn’t because of a lack of flexibly.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Fitbit Flow for crises where standard ventilators are not accessible.
Fitbit says that the organization is utilizing its current framework to rapidly deliver enormous quantities of the gadget. Be that as it may, they have no designs to keep creating ventilators after the pandemic and it is just a brief move in center until further notice.
