Open-source ventilator
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Open-source ventilator
An open-source ventilator is a disaster-situation ventilator made using a freely-licensed design, and ideally, freely-available components and parts. Designs, components, and parts may be anywhere from completely reverse-engineered to completely new creations, components may be adaptations of various inexpensive existing products, and special hard-to-find and/or expensive parts may be 3-D-printed instead of sourced.[1][2]
One small, early prototype effort was the Pandemic Ventilator created somewhere back in 2008 (per oldest comments) during the resurgence of H5N1 Avian Influenza that began in 2003, and so named "because it is meant to be used as a ventilator of last resort during a possible avian (bird) flu pandemic."
A major worldwide design effort began during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic after a Hackaday project was started,[3][non-primary source needed] in order to respond to expected ventilator shortages causing higher mortality rate among severe patients.
On March 20, 2020 Irish Health Services[4] began reviewing designs[5]. A prototype is being designed and tested in Colombia[6].
The Polish company Urbicum reports successful testing[7] of a 3D-printed open-source prototype device called VentilAid. The makers describe it as a last resort device when professional equipment is missing. The design is publicly available[8]. The first Ventilaid prototype requires compressed air to run.
On March 21, 2020 the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) began maintaining a strategic list of open source designs being worked on[9][10]. The NECSI project considers manufacturing capability, medical safety and need for treating patients in various conditions, speed dealing with legal and political issues, logistics and supply[11]. NECSI is staffed with scientists from Harvard and MIT and others who have an understanding of pandemics, medicine, systems, risk, and data collection[11].
Further resources:
- HackerNoon article featuring four open source ventilator projects.
- An overview of open source ventilator initiatives and open regulatory standards.
- OSV and other COVID supplies community with 2000+ members; 8th design iteration as of March 26th.
- Development status, concept and features comparison for open source ventilators projects in a single table.
References
- ^ Bender, Maddie (2020-03-17). "People Are Trying to Make DIY Ventilators to Meet Coronavirus Demand". Vice. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ^ Toussaint, Kristin (2020-03-16). "These Good Samaritans with a 3D printer are saving lives by making new respirator valves for free". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ Coetzee, Gerrit (2020-03-12). "Ultimate Medical Hackathon: How Fast Can We Design And Deploy An Open Source Ventilator?". Hackaday. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ^ Sternlicht, Alexandra. "There's A Shortage Of Ventilators For Coronavirus Patients, So This International Group Invented An Open Source Alternative That's Being Tested Next Week". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ^ Rodrigo, Chris Mills (2020-03-20). "Irish health officials to review 3D-printed ventilator". TheHill. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ^ colombiareports (2020-03-21). "Colombia close to having world's first open source and low-cost ventilator to 'beat Covid-19'". Colombia News | Colombia Reports. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ^ urbicum (2020-03-23). "VentilAid -open-source ventilator, that can be made anywhere locally". VentilAid. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
- ^ urbicum (2020-03-23). "GitHub - VentilAid / VentilAid". VentilAid. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
- ^ Fenton, Bruce (March 21, 2020). "Ventilator Project Update: March 21th, 2020". Medium. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "A list projects to make emergency ventilators in response to COVID-19, focusing on free-libre open source". GitHub. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Fenton, Bruce (March 14, 2020). "We need Ventilators - We Need You to Help Get Them Built". Medium. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
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