MAINGEAR is a manufacturer of custom gaming desktops, notebooks, and workstations — but in a time of crisis, their skills are needed elsewhere. That’s why they’ve announced they are now using their factories to produce emergency ventilators to aid hospitals in the fight against COVID-19.
The company is located twenty miles outside of New York City, where the need is the greatest, and they have the ability to produce ventilators at a fraction of the cost — one-fourth as much as a traditional manufacturer of such equipment. MAINGEAR has utilized their tech to create the LIV — a machine that “combines redundant power circuits, multiple safety features, and a unique coupling device that contains and drains exhaled aerosolized virus from the patient while allowing routine maintenance under severe conditions.”
The LIV has simple controls and a touch screen interface, as well as preset standard values to make it easy and quick to learn for overworked hospital personnel.
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