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Potential to force out another new technology into the free market? It's probably way better than being put into a medical coma, intubated, and vented to death…
“What if we could make a vest that can decrease the shortness of breath of COPD patients such that they are able to engage in life again?” says Jake Brenner, a pulmonary critical care physician in the Perelman School of Medicine.
Starting with a series of simple sketches, Brenner aimed to update the functionality of modern respirators based on the same principle as the iron lung. These devices use a front and back turtle-like shell surrounding the chest with an attached pump to apply pressure. Assisted breathing devices currently on the market are generally impractical for patients to wear in their daily lives. Brenner’s device, however, could be worn anywhere.
The idea was accepted into Medical Device Accelerator (MDA) program at Penn Medicine in 2017, which provided Brenner with seed funding and collaborators with expertise in engineering and product design to move through a streamlined development process. He formed a company, Right Air, LLC, received additional support from Penn Health-Tech, a University-wide center to speed device development, and set up a staff working out of NextFab, a Philadelphia maker space that is a ready-made Santa’s Workshop for inventors.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/how-wear-anywhere-vest-copd-evolved