Irish Crowdfund: Emergency Covid Ventilator

Jurgen Klopp

Lads I just think this deserves sharing. A team in Galway are currently trying to design an easily built and put together ventilator which can be rapidly built and deployed. It's to be an open source device so anyone or any nation will be free to use the designs to make their own. Non profit

Saw it in the journal this morning

https://www.thejournal.ie/emergency-ventilators-ireland-5051956-Mar2020/

They currently have about 36k of the 50k needed, just said I'd share it

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-breathing-fund-emergency-covid19-ventilators

Ubbquittious

Donated. Fecking great idea. Shur the ordinary ventilator is nothing special just a bit of plastic with a little motor from China and a low end microcontroller.

But they are expensive because they are sold by some fat fcuker who eats too many chicken dinners in the Shelbourne and does a lot of liaising with HSE top brass and his company completed a load of pointless regulatory hoop jumping that was designed to keep out competition

Jurgen Klopp

They've just hit the 50k needed and climbing

The target has been reached

Eric Cartman

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Donated. Fecking great idea. Shur the ordinary ventilator is nothing special just a bit of plastic with a little motor from China and a low end microcontroller.

But they are expensive because they are sold by some fat fcuker who eats too many chicken dinners in the Shelbourne and does a lot of liaising with HSE top brass and his company completed a load of pointless regulatory hoop jumping that was designed to keep out competition

Theyre expensive because usually all medical equipment has to go through about a million quid worth of approval testing and certification

Peppa

Excellent idea, donated and shared.

Ubbquittious

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Theyre expensive because usually all medical equipment has to go through about a million quid worth of approval testing and certification

Yep. So only fellas with a million quid to spare can get their foot in the door of the lucrative medical devices industry.

florawest

Read about it in an article on Journal.ie and what a great idea, donated and passed it on, funding flying in, well done everyone.
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Eric Cartman

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Yep. So only fellas with a million quid to spare can get their foot in the door of the lucrative medical devices industry.

im not sure if you're advocating for people being able to sell untested, uncertified medical equipment or saying the cost of testing it should be absorbed by somebody else...

Jurgen Klopp

€91,694 at current counting

PCeeeee

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Yep. So only fellas with a million quid to spare can get their foot in the door of the lucrative medical devices industry.

Pretty much yeah. Even start ups with excellent products mostly look to be bought out as commercialisation is wildly expensive

signostic

Oxford University prototype ventilator going to testing
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-prototype-ventilators-could-be-mass-produced-to-ease-nhs-pressure-11963109

Caryatnid

There is a similiar but bigger Irish one is www.opensourceventilator.ie, they are open source (meaning anyone can then take their design and use) and not looking for funding. They are the ones that were featured on RTE news on Saturday.

2u2me

Interesting video from a Galway engineer here.

Apparently Virgin Orbit are trying to get this taken down because it's dangerous information, but I think it deserves a share.

ShineOn7

2u2me wrote: »

Interesting video from a Galway engineer here.

Apparently Virgin Orbit are trying to get this taken down because it's dangerous information, but I think it deserves a share.

Eh?

ShineOn7

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Lads I just think this deserves sharing. A team in Galway are currently trying to design an easily built and put together ventilator which can be rapidly built and deployed. It's to be an open source device so anyone or any nation will be free to use the designs to make their own. Non profit

Saw it in the journal this morning

https://www.thejournal.ie/emergency-ventilators-ireland-5051956-Mar2020/

They currently have about 36k of the 50k needed, just said I'd share it

https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-breathing-fund-emergency-covid19-ventilators

"According to HSE data, Ireland could end up with less than 1% of the number of ventilators required to treat the projected number of people who will become critically ill due to COVID-19. With current projections forecasting over 6% of coronavirus cases becoming critically ill (source), the potential ventilator crisis could leave over 100,000 Irish lives at risk"



That was 3 weeks ago, I don't think projections are anywhere near as bad now are they?

2u2me

ShineOn7 wrote: »

Eh?

Here's the guy himself to explain.

[I can't post image but try here https://ibb.co/gjHZK8L]