Pandemic Pressure Control Ventilator

Description

The Covid-19 pandemic is causing a rising patient demand for respiratory Pressure Control Ventilators (PCVs). The PCV demand already exceeds the supply in some hospitals. The rapidly growing PCV shortage will force more and more hospitals to triage patients who need PCVs. More and more patients will not get them and will die. A severe PCV shortage will cause 100's of thousands of preventable deaths in the USA and Canada and millions of deaths around the world.

A good design for an open-source low-cost PCV can be developed quickly by online design teams, inspired by innovative previous ventilator prototypes found around the Web. Resulting PCV designs will be quickly mass-produced by Makerspaces, schools, hobbyist workshops, and public-spirited hardware manufacturers around the world.

And save millions of lives.

Files

Basic Structure Function PCV.jpg JPEG Image - 54.02 kB - 03/11/2020 at 21:29		Preview

Overview of Mechanical Ventilation - Critical Care Medicine - Merck Manuals Professional Edition.pdf Adobe Portable Document Format - 164.77 kB - 03/04/2020 at 20:34		Preview

The-Pandemic-Ventilator DIY Manual.pdf Adobe Portable Document Format - 361.87 kB - 03/02/2020 at 22:02		Preview

Husseini 2010 - Design and Prototyping of a Low-cost Portable Mechanical Ventilator - MIT.pdf Adobe Portable Document Format - 672.66 kB - 03/02/2020 at 22:01		Preview

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MAKK wrote 03/22/2020 at 03:14

I am pleased and feel motivated to join this group.

Some design and development challenges are (other than a basic design of Covid 19 servo ventilator) are ,

1. Reliability,

2.Ease of use ,

3.Safety of preventative maintenance (without getting infected),

4.Low cost ,

5.Portable,

6.Possibly scalable ,

7. Intelligent,

8.BS standard conformity,

9.A good candidate for MHRA approval,

10. Fast deployment time for commercialisation after R&D stage.

Any other point that you may add please?

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rjpope42 wrote 03/17/2020 at 20:00

Hi James,

I just wanted to get this idea out there as well, as an extremely simple idea that provides fixed volume and pressure, both of which can be adjusted mechanically

https://hackaday.io/project/170434-simple-ventilator-air-supply

as presented it is a bit of a desperate measure/parking lot tent idea, but perhaps someone with more knowledge of this type of situation than me will find it useful

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Dan Maloney wrote 03/04/2020 at 16:49

Interesting. I'm actually working on a roundup of Covid-19 hacks, so I'll include this.

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Adam Quantrill wrote 03/15/2020 at 21:01

Dan see https://hackaday.io/project/170397-my-own-body-hack-for-covid19 if they don't delete it!

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Basic Structure Function PCV.jpg

Overview of Mechanical Ventilation - Critical Care Medicine - Merck Manuals Professional Edition.pdf

The-Pandemic-Ventilator DIY Manual.pdf

Husseini 2010 - Design and Prototyping of a Low-cost Portable Mechanical Ventilator - MIT.pdf

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