Case study — 10XBeta · Emergency Ventilator Response
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I worked on the 10XBeta team through the Emergency Ventilator Response.
As COVID-19 overwhelmed New York in March 2020, 10XBeta joined the Emergency Ventilator Response — a consortium formed to answer the ventilator shortage. The brief: a low-cost, easy-to-manufacture automated resuscitator, fast.
Spiro Wave doesn’t replace a ventilator, it bridges to one. It mechanically compresses the manual resuscitator bag already found in every emergency room, freeing scarce conventional ventilators for the most critical patients. Clinicians set tidal volume, rate, I:E ratio, pressure limits and PEEP.
Inspired by MIT’s E-Vent and built from standard, readily-available components, it uses far fewer parts than a conventional ventilator — so it could be made at scale, next to Boyce Technologies, at a fraction of the cost. Concept to FDA Emergency Use Authorization took about five weeks.
Spiro Mini pushed the same idea smaller — a miniaturised, transport-ready resuscitator, carried through pre-clinical (porcine) testing.
