MIT Posts Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100

[Just another man]

https://e-vent.mit.edu/controls/electrical-hardware/

The researchers emphasize that this is not a project for typical do-it-yourselfers to undertake, since it requires specialized understanding of the clinical-technical interface, and the ability to work in consideration of strict U.S. Food and Drug Administration specifications and guidelines.

This is for medical device manufacturers (and maybe other industries with skill in sterile equipment manufacturing, if need dictates) to have a design that can be fabricated more quickly and cheaply than existing designs to get around the current bottlenecks in the supply chain.

 

- Sure, but having a non-sterile non fda approved respirator is probably better than having no respirator.

 

[Just another man]

The MIT release stated that an effective ventilator needs to control for several variables and situations such as failure to expire the previous breath before the ventilator pushes in a new one (auto PEEP). It recognizes the faults of such a simple design using a BVM, but states that while there are many different situations for a ventilator to treat, a mechanically operated BVM can handle the simplest of them in order to free up more advanced ventilators and pairs of hands for less simple patients. The patient under these MIT devices would still need to be monitored by a medical professional, but this would allow several nurses/doctors who would otherwise have to manually ventilate an absolute emergency patient to focus on other things while a single nurse/doctor could monitor these machines

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

6 hours ago, Michael Krewson said:

- Sure, but having a non-sterile non fda approved respirator is probably better than having no respirator.

The air I breathe is not sterile ... heck, I have even inhaled a few insects from time to time.

Yet ... somehow I still live!

[TrueTomHarley]

11 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

I have even inhaled a few insects from time to time.

Hmm. That explains a lot.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

As Kermit the Frog says  "Time's fun when you're having flies!"