JPL-20200423-TECHf-0001-VITAL Video File

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has designed a high-pressure ventilator device tailored to the needs of critical patients before they require intensive-care-unit treatment. This new device would free up traditional ventilators, which can address a broader range of issues in the most severe patients. Called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), the device is designed to be faster to build and easier to maintain than traditional ventilators, with a fraction of the parts. It was designed to include many parts that are readily available for other medical devices, allowing potential manufacturers to tap into preexisting supply chains. The prototype was developed over 37 days at JPL in Southern California and then tested on April 21 at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Human Simulation Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine New York City. JPL is submitting the device for approval from the Food and Drug Administration via an Emergency Use Authorization, a fast-track approval process developed for crisis situations that takes just days rather than years. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. Its Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships will offer a free license for VITAL and is currently reaching out to the commercial medical industry to find manufacturers for the device.

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