by Braden Kelley
Calling all doctors, nurses, designers, engineers and designers…
Join one of the amazing Open Source Ventilator Projects to contribute your passion, creativity, time and expertise to help develop low-cost ventilators to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Here are some ways of getting involved and some inspiration and some cheaper ventilator options:
- Ultimate Medical Hackathon
- Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies group on Facebook
- DIY Pandemic Ventilator (built during Avian Flu crisis and shared on Instructables)
- Story on OneBreath winning PopSci Innovation Award in 2010
- OneBreath company web site ($4,000 low cost respirator vs. $35,000 traditional solution)
Below is a video from the Lemelson Foundation from 2015 that shares the story of how Matt Callaghan came to start OneBreath Ventilators to create lower cost ventilators for developing countries and the rest of the world after H1N1 Swine Flu never became a problem in the USA thanks to President Obama’s administration proactive steps to protect our country. (Learn more about the design process by reading this Stanford Byers Center for BioDesign article)
If you know of other efforts working on creating low cost, quick to produce ventilators, please post as a comment!
Image credits: Bloomberg
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