{"id":50217,"key":"Global_Health_Medical_Device_Compendium/Baby_Bubbler","title":"Global Health Medical Device Compendium/Baby Bubbler","latest":{"id":1267691,"timestamp":"2026-09-10T14:10:31Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{GHMDC device data\n| health-topic = Child mortality,\n| classification = Treatment\n| manufacturer-location = Texas, United States\n| manufacturer-coordinates = 31° 15' 50.01\" N, 98° 32' 44.20\" W\n}}\n\nRespiratory failure occurs when the body is unable to utilize sufficient enough oxygen to meet the body’s demands. This can be due to infections and accounts for about 4.9 million infant deaths annually in developing countries. Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices are efficient in treatment but common models are too expensive to be used in low-resource health facilities.\n\n== Detailed description of the solution ==\n\nThe Baby Bubbler is a continuous positive airway pressure device that inflates the infant’s lungs and increases oxygenation while they are healing from a respiratory infection. This CPAP device is about $400 compared to common $6000 devices. The bubbler comes with a patient interface, CPAP generator, and flow generator that provides ambient air to the infant with the option of adding supplemental oxygen.\n\n== Designed by ==\n\n* Designed by: InfantAir at Rice University\n* Manufacturer (if different):\n* Manufacturer location: Rice University\n\n== When and where it was tested/implemented ==\n\nMolowi in 2012\n\n== Funding Source ==\n\nFinalist in Saving Lives at Birth Competition\n\n== References ==\n\n=== Peer-reviewed publication ===\n\n=== Other internally generated reports ===\n\nBubble CPAP System (February 2013). Retrieved November 7, 2013 from [http://web.archive.org/web/20130515021740/http://rice360.rice.edu:80/Resources/Documents/CPAP.final.pdf here.]\n\nRuth, David. Baby Bubbler a breath fresh of air (2010, June 6). Retrieved November 7, 2013 from [http://web.archive.org/web/20150907021406/http://bioengineering.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=137 here.]\n\nRice University. \"Rice's Baby Bubbler.\" Online video clip.\nYouTube (2010, June 4). Web. Retrieved November 7, 2013 from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgdH33uVkc here.]\n\n=== Externally generated reports ===\n\nBubble CPAP system (2013, November 8). Retrieved November 10, 2013 from [http://maternova.net/health-innovations/bubble-cpap-system here.]\n\n=== IP and copyright ===\n\n=== Approval by regulatory bodies or standards boards ===\n\n{{Page data\n| sdg = SDG03 Good health and well-being, SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}"}