Mercedes AMG highlight the production process in making Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) breathing aid.
VIDEO SHOWS: PRODUCTION PROCESS OF BREATHING AID BY MERCEDES F1 TEAM SHOWS: BRIXWORTH, ENGLAND, UK (RECENT) (MERCEDES F1 VNR - FOR NEWS PURPOSES ONLY) 1.
EXTERIOR OF MERCEDES AMG HIGH PERFORMANCE POWERTRAINS (MUTE) 2.
BOX BEING MOVED REMOTELY 3.
VARIOUS OF VIEW ONBOARD BOX BEING MOVED REMOTELY 4.
EMPLOYEE PACKING ITEM INTO BOX 5.
EMPLOYEES AT WORK 6.
STICKER WITH MAILING ADDRESS BEING STUCK TO BOX 7.
STICKER WITH MAILING ADDRESS 8.
VARIOUS OF CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE (CPAP) DESIGNS ON COMPUTER SCREEN 9.
VARIOUS OF TEST DUMMY WEARING OXYGEN MASK 10.
PART OF OXYGEN MASK 11.
PACKET OF MATERIALS BEING PACKED INTO BOX 12.
PARTS OF CPAP 13.
SHELVES PACKED WITH BOXES 14.
EMPLOYEE 15.
PART OF CPAP BEING WORKED ON BY EMPLOYEE 16.
VARIOUS OF MACHINERY AT WORK 17.
VARIOUS OF MACHINE WORKING ON PART OF CPAP 18.
OPEN BOXES (MUTE) 19.
BOXES STORING PARTS OF CPAP (MUTE) 20.
VARIOUS OF EMPLOYEE WORKING ON CPAP 21.
EMPLOYEES WORKING 22.
PAPER SIGN WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES / EMPLOYEE IN BACKGROUND STORY: A new version of a breathing aid that can help coronavirus patients has been developed in less than a week by a team involving Mercedes Formula One, and is being trialed at London hospitals.
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices have been used in China and Italy to deliver air and oxygen under pressure to patients' lungs to help them breathe without the need for them to go on a ventilator, a more invasive process.
The new CPAP has already been approved by the relevant regulator and now hundreds of the machines will be delivered to University College London Hospital for trials, before being rolled out to other hospitals.
The new breathing aid was developed by engineers and clinicians at UCLH teaming up with Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains who worked at UCL's MechSpace hub to reverse engineer a device that can be produced quickly.
Asked about the risk to healthcare workers of using CPAPs as contaminated droplets can escape from the device, Professor Rebecca Shipley, Director of UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, told the BBC, that the risks were very low if those workers wore appropriate personal protective equipment.
She also said that the new device could be scaled up very quickly.
Development of the new device took fewer than 100 hours from initial meeting to production of the first one.
The team working on it also includes Oxford Optronix, a small company that will manufacture the oxygen monitors for the CPAP devices.
(Production: Stefan Haskins)
Mercedes Formula 1 has teamed up with the University College London Hospitals to create a new version of a breathing aid to help..