50 years of Servo Ventilators – meet one of the pioneers
The birth of the Servo Ventilator just over 50 years ago is a prominent example of how human curiosity and stubbornness can pave the way for life-saving innovations. Meet Professor Emeritus Björn Jonson, one of the pioneers who developed the world’s first flow-controlled ventilator in Sweden in the late 1960s.
“The Servo ventilator became a reality because I was crossing roads with visionary mentors, a genius bedside-clinician and a strong industrial partner with world-class engineers. For me, what happened is still somewhat unreal,” Björn says.
In the early 1960s, noisy and