open-source design for emergency COVID-19 ICUs

[ad_1] By Carlo Ratti Associati Renders: Carlo Ratti Associati Read Time: 2 mins . CURA (Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments) aims to convert shipping containers into plug-in Intensive-Care Pods for the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, an international task force of designers, engineers, medical professionals, and military experts have joined forces to work on CURA (cure in Latin), an open-source project aimed at capacity building in Intensive-Care Units (ICU). . A compact Intensive-Care pod for patients with respiratory infections, CURA is hosted in a repurposed 20-foot intermodal shipping container with biocontainment (thanks to negative pressure). Each unit works autonomously and […]