My brother, a biomedical engineer, and the director of University of Florida's Centre for Safety, Simulation & Advanced Learning Technologies, designed with the help of his colleagues, a low-cost ventilator that can be assembled from parts bought in a hardware store.
Please pass this around if you know any person, preferably with engineering background, who can volunteer to build it in any part of the world that is running out of ventilators. It will save many lives.
Please be aware that this product is not fully tested. It's being shared because of the current state of emergency due to Covid-19, and the predicted ventilator shortage worldwide. Updates are available on the site:
https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventilator-project/
https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventilator-project/
More info about this DIY ventilator in his interview here:
Let's all do our share in helping to stop the spread of this virus.
Keep safe with social-distancing and self-isolation.
A video of Sem speaking on behalf of University of Florida Health faculty to explain the concept.
New update on the ventilator on April 8, 2020
2 comments:
Great Peggy. So happy to see your brother and his colleagues find such a solution. So important for Africa and other poor countries, this is essential, also for Mauritius.
A team is trying to do it here. Can I have the mail of your brother, in case the team has questions
Hi, that's wonderful to hear. it was hard to reach my brother Sem, as he's very tied up right now finalizing the design. He says to thank you and that there will be an update on the website tonight.
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