Open Source Ventilator - A collaborative project

CatFromHue · 17-03-2020 2:03am #1

Saw this on twitter.

Thought I'd post it here in case it interests anyone

An open-source collaborative ventilator project to tackle challenges faced by #covid19.

godtabh · 22-03-2020 8:53pm

Aren’t these been 3D printed now by any one with a 3D printer

Turbulent Bill · 23-03-2020 2:06am

I admire anyone who is working to tackle Covid-19, but this project looks wrong-headed to me. Pouring time and effort into a ground-up device design, when effective ventilators have been available for decades, seems a waste. They are fairly complex pieces of equipment, which can easily kill patients if they fail.

Asking a big vent manufacturer to open-source one of their older designs (without guarantee), then rolling out production of this on a wide scale might be an alternative.

I get that this is intended as a field based tool of last resort, but surely they'd just ambu bag them manually in this case?

Turbulent Bill · 31-03-2020 12:07am

Nice to see Medtronic going the open source route with one of their ventilator designs, fair play to them:

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0330/1127365-medtronic-to-share-ventilator-designs/

CatFromHue · 31-03-2020 4:33pm

There's a few different groups working on this.

Mick Clifford interviewed some of them

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/mick-clifford-battle-is-on-to-maintain-supplies-of-ventilators-podcast-989435.html#.XoGdWjX-IWk.twitter

The litigation issue is a big one if you ask me. The courts tend not to deal with these types of situations very well.

Open Source Ventilator - A collaborative project

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