The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system demonstrated that the device increased the survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness from 44 percent to 71 percent. A ...
CPAP helps babies breathe more easily by keeping their lungs inflated, but with a price around $6,000, conventional neonatal CPAP machines are too expensive for hospitals in the developing world. In ...
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b) hosted a seminar on Sunday to highlight the potential of Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (bCPAP), a locally ...
When Chokonjetsa was born, he weighed just over 2 pounds. His tiny, underdeveloped lungs struggled for each breath. Then doctors in the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, put Chokonjetsa on a breathing ...
The first phase of nationwide hands-on training on the use of bubble CPAP in treating respiratory distress caused by measles-induced pneumonia was launched today. The training is being conducted under ...
HOUSTON -- (Jan. 29, 2014) -- The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system created by Rice University bioengineering students demonstrated that the device increased the survival ...