Galway medtech sector designs ventilator which can treat two patients at once

Researchers in Galway have designed a ventilator that would allow two people be treated at once.

A new system of splitting ventilators between two patients which can be adjusted for each individual has been designed by clinicians and medical technologists in Galway.

Galway is a medtech hub, where about half of the world’s ventilators are produced, and the new system will halve the number of ventilators required in intensive care settings during the Covid-19 pandemic.