JavaScript is required
JPL Logo
Image

Building NASA's Coronavirus Ventilator Prototype

April 23, 2020
Engineers more accustomed to building spacecraft than medical devices worked on a prototype ventilator for coronavirus patients at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March and April of 2020.

click here for larger version of figure 1 for PIA23715
Figure 1

click here for larger version of figure 2 for PIA23715
Figure 2

click here for larger version of figure 3 for PIA23715
Figure 3
Click on images for larger versions


Engineers more accustomed to building spacecraft than medical devices worked on a prototype ventilator for coronavirus patients at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March and April of 2020. VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) is designed to be faster to build and easier to maintain than traditional ventilators, with a fraction of the parts. The VITAL team at JPL created their prototype in 37 days.

Additional images show more scenes of the team building the prototype.