Mercedes Formula One team and researchers from University College London have teamed up to develop a breathing aid designed to keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care.
University College engineers, medical clinicians, and technicians from Lewis Hamilton 's Mercedes team are hoping to distribute the machine through NHS hospitals pending successful trials this week, the BBC has reported.
The device is a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP machine, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator and patient sedation.
The device has reportedly already gained regulatory approval with Mercedes confident it could produce up to 1,000 of them a day for distribution throughout hospitals, provided it performs
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