Medical Devices Center Creates New Ventilator
![Ventilator prototype](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/webp_scaled/public/IMG-1427.jpg.webp?itok=gUpr-fDN)
UMN anesthesiology fellow Stephen Richardson partnered with the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, directed by ME Professor Arthur Erdman, to create a prototype for a low-cost ventilator based on the idea of motorized Ambu bags. One week and 70 volunteers later, two prototypes — now called the Coventor — tested successfully.
![ME professor Arthur Erdman in medical scrubs](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Art_landscape.jpg.webp?itok=L0VlROCi)