FDA Releases Letter Regarding Ventilators

FDA released information pertaining to ventilator supply and strategies for healthcare providers, which can be found here: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/letters-health-care-providers/ventilator-supply-mitigation-strategies-letter-health-care-providers

We are actively processing this information and continue to put the safety of the patient above all else.

23 Replies to “FDA Releases Letter Regarding Ventilators”

  1. Jose Mascheroni

    Dear project Manager,
    Our company is part of cooperative team for develop a low cost, low complexity ventilator prototype for corona-virus pandemic treatment.
    We would know like if you can send for us your open-source information
    1.Minimum safe ventilator functionality based on clinical guidance
    2.Reference hardware design for meeting minimum clinical requirements
    3.Reference control strategies and electronics designs and supporting insights
    4.Results from testing in animal models
    Our country provably need a lot of ventilatords in a short time. Please help us.
    Best Regards

    Jose Mascheroni

    • Paulo Pastore

      Desde 2010 deixei de projetar em mecânica fina, minha especialidade devido no Brasil, como pesquisador não tive mais auxílio do governo, assim projetos em tecnologia de ponta o Brasil atrasou em relação a outros países

    • Seth Guterman

      Jose
      I am Dr Seth Guterman, Board Certifed Emergency Physician with 30 years in patient airway management and ventilation. I think hospitals might already have supplies to make their own mini ventilators with an ambubag and a compression sequence stocking that are used for patients admitted to the hospital. The compression sequence stockings create circumferential pressure between 25-40mm Hg and the ambubag only needs 15-20mm Hg. The compression stocking can surround the ambubag for compressions. Unfortunately, compression stockings only compress every 30 seconds. A hospital will need assitance from engineers to increase the frequency of compressions to every 8-10 seconds for this mini ventilator to work. Feel free to email
      at sguterman@peopleschoicehospital.com

  2. Diego Gomez

    dear researchers,
    From Colombia we are making the same request as Mr. Jose Mascheroni, we have already started to make some ventilators, but his experience would be of vital help to accelerate our process of reaching fully functional ventilator devices.
    thanks and regards
    Diego Gomez
    d.fernandogomez94@gmail.com

    • Shashank Dhadphale

      Hi Diego,
      Can you please share your design with us. We at Fussell Manufacturing have capability to mass produce ventillators but need a design. We serve aerospace. automotive and many other business verticles.
      My email..
      sdhadphale@thrivesys.com

      Thanks in advance..

      • valeriu cosarciuc

        dear researchers,
        I am From Republic of Moldova, we are in the same situation. Our hospitals are in need for this vents.
        In what conditions can you provide the project?
        best regards.
        Valeriu Cosarciuc

  3. Cristian CANGEA

    dear researchers,
    From Romania, we are in the same situation. Our hospitals are in need for this vents.
    In what conditions can you provide the project?
    best regards.
    Cristian C

  4. Marcos Méndez

    Hey guys we are from github.com/popsolutions/openventilator

    Please can you help us validate our project?

  5. Graham Wollentine

    Hi Please could you share this information so we can asses for use in our country

  6. Kathiresan Sundarappan

    Thanks for sharing the work done on ventilator. We are also trying to build mechanical ventilator in India and as you have brought out it should not be like a DIY project. Since you have done substantial work on arriving at the requirements, please share the requirements of the mechanical ventilator (share all types, if possible).

  7. Sebastian Ferro

    Hellow,
    Our company also is part of cooperative team for develop a low cost, low complexity ventilator prototype for corona-virus pandemic treatment in Colombia.
    We would know like if you can send for us your open-source information
    1.Minimum safe ventilator functionality based on clinical guidance
    2.Reference hardware design for meeting minimum clinical requirements
    3.Reference control strategies and electronics designs and supporting insights
    4.Results from testing in animal models

    Our country provably need a lot of ventilatords in a short time. Please help us.
    Best Regards

    Sebastian Ferro

  8. FarsHad Raisiyan

    Hi I’m a designer and manufacturer of a turbocharged ventilator, I have 5 years of experience and live in Germany Send me a message if you would like to collaborate

  9. FarsHad Raisiyan

    Hi I’m a designer and manufacturer of a turbocharged ventilator, I have 18 years of experience and live in Germany Send me a message if you would like to collaborate

    I can help you design and build a turbofan ventilator or compressor

  10. Samiur Rahman

    dear researchers,
    From Bangladesh we are making the same request as Mr. Jose Mascheroni, our country is very poor can not effort to purchase huge number of vantiletors. Currently our population is 160 mil and we have 500 vantiletors in all over the country. This country is most densly populated country. COVID-19 is like a nuclear bomb to be explode over here.We would like to produce and distribute this device ASAP. Please help us.
    thanks and regards
    samiur.airliner@gmail.com

  11. Shrivatsa R

    Hello, We are from researchers and designers from India, We have capacity of large numbers of manufacturing units.

    Can you please share your designs and plans with us?

    Please contact us..
    shrivatsa.r@gmail.com

  12. Mustafa Swaleh

    Hello Researchers,
    I’m just a kid in the city that is trying to help out the hospitals as much as I can. If it is possible to send me the design of the ventilator so that I can make it with my teammates so we can help out the crowded hospitals in my town. My email is

    Please Contact Us,
    mzswaleh92@yahoo.com

  13. James Sullivan

    If you’d like to get involved in a local project using the MIT design, can someone please comment what’s required by the FDA to produce a machine that could be used under emergency conditions in a hospital environment? Thank you.

  14. Michael Sánchez

    Hola amigos,
    Que maravillosa iniciativa… ¡viva opensource!!.
    Alguien tiene el código fuente o ASM para programar el arduino??

    • Oscar Miguel Delgado Lopez

      Que tal Michael, tienes la inforamcion completa sobre dibujos o despiece acerca del ventilador?

  15. Orlando Macedo

    Good morning! We have just 8 ventilators for a community of 80.000 people… I´m looking for a project to build one, using university labs and ans ice cream factory facility.

  16. Hamid M

    Hi,
    How I can I access to the so-far developed source code for the controller and other hardware parts may requiring the software code?
    Thank you

  17. James Sullivan

    Is there any way to find other teams in your local area who may be working on this project? Perhaps if everyone updated their profile with town & state or zip code, MIT could create a map that showed the location of registered participants, allowing teams to pool local resources and talent. Thank you to MIT for making this project possible!!

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