Over the rest of the semester MOST and well as the MTU Open Source Hardware Enterprise will be documenting, building and testing open source ventilators. If you want to help please do:
Background
Follow literature review protocols from the group here:[1]
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22453100
- https://panvent.blogspot.com/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/fgmsrh/open_source_crowd_sourced_medical_ventilator/
- https://hackaday.com/2020/03/12/ultimate-medical-hackathon-how-fast-can-we-design-and-deploy-an-open-source-ventilator/
- https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/hardware
- https://boingboing.net/2020/03/14/fb-group-forms-to-open-source.html
- Open-Source COVID19 Medical Supplies Requirements
- example 3d printed valve
- https://foro.coronavirusmakers.org/
- https://medium.com/frontier-technology-livestreaming/frontier-tech-4-covid-action-emerging-market-ventilation-systems-9c818cb46189
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/874279/RMVS001_Rapidly_Manufactured_Ventilator_Specification__PDF.pdf
- https://www.agorize.com/en/challenges/code-life-challenge?lang=en
How many are needed?
See Dave Denkenbergers' spreadsheet
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmUMolg-7nA
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/14/health-system-coronavirus-preparation-129066
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/815675678/as-the-pandemic-spreads-will-there-be-enough-ventilators
- https://abcnews.go.com/Health/demand-ventilators-spikes-coronavirus-looms/story?id=69597233
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/opinion/coronavirus-hospital-shortage.html
- FDA sweeping away regulations https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/continuous-positive-airway-pressure-cpap-machines-enhance-people-respiratory-challenges ,
Existing designs
- https://github.com/PubInv/covid19-vent-list -- the list now updated daily
- https://www.instructables.com/id/The-Pandemic-Ventilator/
- https://www.appropedia.org/Negative_pressure_respirator
- https://app.jogl.io/project/121#about and https://www.projectopenair.org/ and the core documentation on the ventilator project https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TrHL40-RwSL_yWivaRF8GyKmLVJMr63j
- https://www.medonegroup.com/pdf/manuals/techManuals/Cardinal-Health-VELA-Ventilator-Service-Manual.pdf Service Manual for a Commercial Ventilator
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/pandemic-ventilator-coronvirus-hospitals-1.5493830
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2009.06207.x
- https://www.oxygen.protofy.xyz/
- https://e-vent.mit.edu/
- https://gitlab.com/open-source-ventilator/OpenLung
MTU designs
Testing procedure
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/specification-for-ventilators-to-be-used-in-uk-hospitals-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak
- https://github.com/PubInv/ventmon-ventilator-inline-test-monitor
- ISO 80601-2-12 https://www.iso.org/standard/72069.html