TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION ADVERTORIAL Wideblue develops ground breaking new medical device to help combat COVID-19 Capnometer could help NHS quickly detect which Covid-19 patients need a ventilator
medical device which could help the NHS quickly discover which COVID-19 patients are deteriorating and need a ventilator. The device, N-Tidal, developed for Wideblue client Cambridge
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Respiratory Innovations (CRI), is a simple-to-use, fully automated, small battery powered personal capnometer which is used to measure the amount of CO2 in exhaled breath during normal relaxed breathing. The changes in CO2 concentration as a patient breathes in and out through the device are measured and can be used to assess the health of a patient’s lungs and general condition. Amid a shortage of ventilators, the device could enable clinicians to prioritise their use based on firm data. The device may also be useful to track progress of patients as they recover after ventilator use. Normally a device called a spirometer is used to assess lung function but this requires the patient to blow long and hard into a tube; Covid-19 patients do not have the energy to do this. Moreover, blowing hard into the spirometer can disperse coronavirus particles and create an aerosol of the virus the air. The N-Tidal device can hopefully be used to assess patients’ lungs without generating dangerous aerosols. It is hoped the CE-marked N-Tidal device will start trials in NHS and US
hospitals within two or three weeks, opening the door for a roll out across the UK and potentially globally. Wideblue has produced 200 units so far with a purchase order secured for another 1,000 units which will be manufactured over the next few weeks. Wideblue became part of Pivot International (
www.pivotint.com) in April
2018 after being acquired by the Kansas-based company for an undisclosed sum. Based in Glasgow, WideBlue has a 20-year track record of helping
clients take innovative and novel product ideas from the drawing board to prototyping and on to full scale manufacture and commercialisation. WideBlue now has a multi-disciplinary workforce of 17 engineers many
of whom have multiple degrees in electronics, physics, product design, engineering and production. The company has won numerous awards for product design including a European Design Award in 2017 for the development of a mobile phone ophthalmoscope for client Peek Vision. It has also won accolades for its work on the I-1 instant digital camera for The Impossible Project.
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