IIT Students Develop Cheap Portable CPR Device

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CPR Device

A cost effective device that some Indian engineering students have developed can prove to be a savior for heart patients. Undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar have developed a prototype of portable mechanical Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) device to help cardiac patients if they suffer from a heart stroke in the public places. IIT bombay

The students Kratika Bhagtani studying electrical engineering and Karthik Karvaje studying mechanical engineering developed a prototype for portable mechanical CPR device to resuscitate such patients.

“The two major problems faced by people who suffer from cardiac attacks in public places in India include ambulances taking 15-20 minutes to reach to the patient and common people lacking the knowledge about how to give chest compressions and ventilation to the patient," said Karvaje.
         The device is not only very easy to use but also is very cost effective. A regular CPR device available in hospitals costs more than ₹4,00,000 but this prototype was built in just Rs. 6,000 with the help of 3D printers and cardboard like material. If commercialized, it would not cost more than ₹10,000 the students claim.

“The portable CPR prototype is a compact and affordable mechanical device that performs chest compressions at a proper depth and optimal rate, ventilates lungs, maintains an open airway and indicates the compression rate. It is roughly the size of a laptop, weighs less than 1 kg and simple to use as it just requires rotating the handle. This manual operation can be replaced by a small electric motor as well," said Bhagtani.

The students developed the device under the Invent@IITGN program at IIT Gandhinagar. It is a unique six-week intensive summer program in inventing that originated in US in 2013 at The Cooper Union, New York. It was conducted for the first time in India during the summer of 2018 at IIT Gandhinagar by founders of the original program in the US, Cooper Union Professors Alan Wolf and Eric Lima, along with IIT Gandhinagar Professors Vineet Vashista and Nithin George.

The selected 20 students from IITs across India had participated in this program and were grouped into 10 teams with two students in each. They were given a budget of up to Rs. 50,000 to conceive of an invention, build, refine and test its prototype, write and file both Indian and U.S. provisional patent applications for it, and compete for grand prizes of best inventions in a short span of six weeks. The team won the prize money of ₹1 lakh for their invention from Invent@IITGN program, filed Indian and U.S. provisional patents for their innovation and aims to proceed further with their patent application in future.


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