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parameters, arterial blood gas will help in monitoring the patients. With availability of ventilators splitting will be reversed to 1:1 ratio.
Contact info:
inofinityrnd@gmail.com, saksham.saxena@investindia.org.in
Website link:
https://inofinityrnd.com/#
IIT Jodhpur has developed a cold plasma detergent in the environment
to fight COVID-19
To reduce the risk of infection from airborne pathogens in an indoor environment, IIT Jodhpur has developed a novel cold-plasma detergent in the environment (CODE) device using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma in combination with nanotechnology. It produces optimum concentrations of cold-plasma detergent in the environment (active negative ions) that lasts more than 25 seconds on an average, and is highly useful for better indoor air quality and also to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is able to produce plasma detergent ions with concentration varying from 300 ions/cm3 to 2,00,000 ions/cm3 and above, from an 8” inch device easily controlled by electric circuitry. The average power consumption in the discharge process of the device is also very low (< 2W). The working performance of the device has been tested for disinfection of total microbial counts, reduction of total fungal counts, dust and pollens in indoor environment of sizes more than 1,72,80,000 cm3. The obtained results show that pristine natural environment is quite realisable from the CODE device in the indoor environments. It is a low-cost, easily scalable device, and will require less maintenance.
The developed technology is attractive for individuals in offices and houses. Systems based on this technology can eventually be deployed at all public and healthcare facilities as standalone systems or can be integrated with the ducts, ACs, coolers, etc. The proposed device can also be easily tailored in the form of CODE jets to clean the environment, PPEs, dresses, face masks, etc. for safe handling of patients by doctors.
Contact info:
ramprakash@iitj.ac.in, saksham.saxena@investindia.org.in
Smart health solutions for rapid mass diagnosis for COVID-19, funded
by DST-RAKSHAK
DST-Remedial Action, Knowledge Skimming and Holistic Analysis of COVID-19 (RAKSHAK) funded IIT Jodhpur to develop a telemedicine system that allows clinicians to remotely interact with patients and other doctors. A specialist can provide consultancy via video conferencing services integrated with electronic healthcare records management. It handles non-emergency cases immediately.
An AI-powered telemedicine system can bring a paradigm shift in the currently known methods and benefits of telemedicine. Continuously evolving ML algorithms and increasing computational power have made real-time data analysis possible. Big data is an important attribute of the proposed telemedicine system. It includes radiological data such as CT and X-ray images,
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