The HDvent Emergency Ventilator System
Abstract
The pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected countries all across the world, heavily burdening the medical infrastructure with the growing number of patients affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). With ventilators in limited supply, this public health emergency highlights the need for safe, fast, reliable, and economical alternatives to high-end commercial devices and has prompted the development of easy-to-use and mass-producible ventilators. Here, we detail the design of the HDvent Emergency Ventilator System. The device performs ventilation through mechanical compression of manual resuscitators and includes control electronics, flow and pressure sensors, and an external data visualization and monitoring unit. We demonstrate its suitability for open loop, pressure- and volume-controlled ventilation. The system has not undergone clinical testing and has not been approved for use as a medical device. The project documentation needed to reproduce the prototype is freely available and will contribute to the development of open source ventilation systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.13005,
title = {The HDvent Emergency Ventilator System},
author = {David Grimshandl and Manuel Gerken and Eleonora Lippi and Binh Tran and Saba Zia Hassan and Jan Hendrik Becher and Selim Jochim and Matthias Weidemüller and Gunnar Föhner and Steffen Brucker and Frank Schumacher and Wolfgang Beldermann and Venelin Angelov and Stefan Hetzel and Stefan Hummel and Simon Muley and Bernd Windelband and Christoph Eisner and Marco Zugaj and Philipp Bayer and Dario Ernst and Marcel Gehrlein and Helmut Jacob and Jens Pfeifle and Andreas Treskatsch and Martin Ulmschneider and Philipp M. Preiss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13005},
year = {2020}
}
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All source files available at https://github.com/HDventilator/