During the Empowered Group Meeting (for ensuring availability of essential Medical equipment) held on 30.03.2020 at 03:00 PM in Room 152 Udyog Bhawan, it was, inter alia, decided that the Technical Committee
of DRDO shall identify the essential technical features for ventilators for
COVID-19, which shall be put on the website of the Ministry of
Health & Family Welfare
and HLL Lifecare Ltd.
The same have
been received from Director General Life
Sciences, DRDO (Chairman Technical
Committee) and are as below:
“ Essential Technical
Features for Ventilator
for COVID-19
1. The machine
should be turbine/compressor based
because the
installation sites might not have
central Oxygen Lines.
2. The machine should have Invasive, non-invasive and CPAP features to make them versatile.
3. 200-600 ML
tidal
volume, Lung Mechanics Display
4. Monitoring of Plateau Pressure, PEEP, PS, oxygen concentration, lung mechanics/inverse
ratio (I:E)
5. Pressure & volume control & PSV
6. Continuous
working capability for 4-5
days”
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