{"id":111405,"date":"2021-06-09T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=111405"},"modified":"2021-06-09T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:49:44","slug":"isro-develops-3-types-of-ventilatorsprena-vau-svasta-to-battle-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-develops-3-types-of-ventilatorsprena-vau-svasta-to-battle-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO develops 3 types of ventilators(PRENA, VaU, SVASTA) to battle Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) has developed three types of ventilators(PRENA, VaU, SVASTA). These three ventilators have been developed at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC), a major space research centre of ISRO in Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moreover, ISRO <\/strong>has said that it will <strong>transfer the technology<\/strong> of these ventilators to industry for clinical usage as India battles the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Which are those three ventilators developed by ISRO?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>PRANA(Programmable Respiratory Assistance for the Needy Aid):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PRANA <\/strong>is a low-cost and portable critical care ventilator. The ventilator is based on the automated compression of an AMBU (Artificial Manual Breathing Unit) bag.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AMBU<\/strong> is a device commonly used to provide positive pressure ventilation to patients who are not breathing or not breathing adequately.<\/li>\n<li><b>Positive pressure ventilation<\/b>\u00a0is a form of respiratory therapy that involves the delivery of air or a mixture of oxygen combined with other gases by\u00a0<b>positive pressure<\/b>\u00a0into the lungs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The ventilator has a control system <\/strong>that includes an airway pressure sensor, flow sensor, oxygen sensor as well as expiration and PEEP (Positive End Expiratory Pressure) control valve.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ventilator supports <\/strong>both invasive and non-invasive ventilation modes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It is capable of giving <\/strong>mandatory breaths (controlled by a ventilator) as well as spontaneous breaths (controlled by the patient).<\/li>\n<li><strong>A robust algorithm <\/strong>for controlled and safe ventilation of the patient is implemented in the device. This raises an alarm and opens safety valves to prevent barotrauma, asphyxia during the ventilation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are also provisions <\/strong>to attach bacterial viral filters at each interface to prevent cross-infection and the contamination of air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>VaU(Ventilation assist Unit):<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VaU <\/strong>is an ICU grade positive pressure mechanical ventilator. It can assist or replace spontaneous breathing problems in patients under respiratory distress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working: <\/strong>The ventilator is based on a centrifugal blower that draws in filtered ambient air, compresses it and delivers it to the patient to achieve ventilation. It can therefore <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">operate without a compressed pneumatic source<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ventilator has been configured<\/strong> to operate in a variety of patient\/ventilator triggered invasive and non-invasive ventilation modes. It also has provisions to detect fault conditions and raise alarms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Space Ventilator Aided System for Trauma Assistance(SVASTA)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SVASTA <\/strong>is a gas-powered ventilator. It can be used for non-invasive ventilation. Hence, it is well-suited for emergency use for first-line treatment and as transit ventilators inside vehicles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working<\/strong>: The ventilator runs on compressed air. It is able to perform various ventilation conditions using manual mechanical settings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The basic design of the ventilator is simple as the components of it can be easily mass-produced for emergency use in pandemic like situations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: var(--list--font-family); background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Read Also :-<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/st-news\/other-technological-developments-news-and-updates\/\">Other Technological developments : news and updates<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/isro-develops-3-types-of-ventilators-to-battle-covid-19-7347786\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) has developed three types of ventilators(PRENA, VaU, SVASTA). These three ventilators have been developed at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC), a major space research centre of ISRO in Kerala. Moreover, ISRO has said that it will transfer the technology of these ventilators to industry for clinical usage as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-develops-3-types-of-ventilatorsprena-vau-svasta-to-battle-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO develops 3 types of ventilators(PRENA, VaU, SVASTA) to battle Covid-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[1424],"class_list":["post-111405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777404,"cached_date":1702108357},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}