WE HAVE ENTERED A NEW PHASE!
On the road to realisation of the Hungarian mass ventilation system
This COVID-19 innovation project, a collaboration between civil society, industry, academia and the public sector, has brought together a cross-sector and transnational community to save human lives.
The MassVentil mass ventilation system is unique in that it can ventilate 5-10-50 people at a time, protect healthcare workers and can be operated outside the hospital in ad hoc camps and halls.
The development of the invention, led by Prof. Dr. Miklós Kozlovszky, started in March 2020 as a civil initiative with the help of selfless volunteer professionals, national and international companies and institutions.
Óbuda University took up the initiative, provided the location, infrastructure and experts for the project, and as a result of the collaboration and with the financial support of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), a successful board model was created from the invention. By the strategic partnership with MEDICOR Zrt, the development of the MassVentil mass ventilation system has entered a new phase. MEDICOR, a Hungarian-owned, experienced medical device manufacturer with a 100-year history, is working with the original developers to further develop the MassVentil mass ventilation system into a medical prototype, creating a licensed, marketable medical device for use in healthcare. In this way, the civil society will also see the results of its voluntary work, as the device based on this invention will become available to patients worldwide.
The blueprints of the community-created board model are still freely available on this website. Additionally, you can find out more about the development on the MEDICOR MassVentil website:
The MassVentil Project: Designing a Mass Ventilator System for the Treatment of Group Illnesses
We are designing a mass ventilator system, that can ventilate up to 5-10-50 or even more people at once, protect healthcare workers, and can be operated outside of hospitals, in temporary emergency camps.
The mission of the MassVentil project team is developing of a working prototype for a modular mass ventilator system, which, under critical circumstances, can be used to simultaneously ventilate a large number of coronavirus patients in critical condition. Plans and results are available for free for organisations who wish to use it during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Most Important Benefits of the MassVentil Concept:
(1) Equipments currently in use are capable of supplying only one person, and each patient must be provided with a separate ventilator, so the available quantity may soon run out. Our MassVentil solution consists of a central duct system and personal ventilator modules for the individual patients. The central inhalation and exhalation duct system supplies air to and collects gases from all the personal ventilator modules for ventilating more patients at the same time, thereby saving more lives.
(2) Exhaled infectious air exits into the common hospital airspace by the respiratory equipment currently in use, whereby doctors and nurses are at increased risk due to working in air contaminated with high concentrations of viruses. In our MassVentil concept, the medical ventilator removes (and filters) exhaled infectious air from the common airspace, significantly reducing the risk of infection for nursing staff, to provid safer working conditions.
(3) An important factor to consider when setting up mass health camps is, which equipment can be used without hospital infrastructure in places where there are no drainage pipes in the wall and power distribution is limited to each camp bed. The mass medical ventilator, that we are designing within the framework of the MassVentil project, is to be employed ad-hoc in an out-of-hospital environment without the need for advanced hospital infrastructure.
With some of these devices, hundreds of people could be ventilated at the same time in an emergency camp environment. Thousands of people in camps around the world could be saved: patients, doctors, nurses.
