HACKERS and HOSPITALS

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HACKERS and HOSPITALS is an effort to coordinate Hackers with Hospitals during an immediate time of need.

Participate

If you have any suggestions, questions or comments, you can contact: michael at fsf.org

• Boston: Fill out the survey at https://covidinnovation.partners.org/questionnaire/ and email the project heads at https://covidinnovation.partners.org/wg-info/ to join a MGB Center for COVID Innovation working group.
  • Watch the MGB Center for COVID Innovation Town Hall video if you missed it: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=SDl6M7-sMy4
• Edit this page! Anyone can do so.
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  • Post what you are working on (even works in progress) to a public version control system (such as git).
  • License your project under a free culture license.
  • Link your project here.
  • If you do not have the means to produce or design, research what others are doing and post it here.
• Find out what your local needs are.
  • Organize local fabricators and hospitals.
  • Assess the needs of the hospitals.
  • Do not produce unless there is a need.
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Mission

We need to help coordinate the medical needs of hospitals with local area fabricators. Boston has a large number of healthcare professionals, hackers, makers, engineers, biomedical innovators, and crafters. If we can all work together, we can save lives.

We need to:

1. Identify parts that need replacing often.
2. Get those parts to local 3D scanners or redesign them in ways that maker space can duplicate them.
3. Publish the plans and design files under free culture licenses.
4. Call on the community to replicate parts.

Common printing materials (PLA & ABS) are probably single use due only to their porous nature so we need to start now to meet demand. Most of the plans I have seen for face masks involve flexible material such as Ninjaflex which many maker spaces have, but in less supply. Copper3D makes an anitmicrobial filament which can probably be found in the Boston area, but rare.

The next step would be for the medical teams to identify commonly used parts that may be suitable for replication using a 3D printing process.

Resources

Meta:

• Dr. Tarek Loubani's twitter crashcourse on 3D printer materials and biocompatibility: https://mobile.twitter.com/turzaak/status/1239544498553860096
• FDA statement on additive medical devices: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/technical-considerations-additive-manufactured-medical-devices
• FDA statement on alternative ventilator usage: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/emergency-use-authorizations?utm_campaign=2020-03-26%20FDA%20Issues%20Emergency%20Use%20Authorization%20for%20Ventilators&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua#covid19ventilators
• What can be expected on a respiratory crash cart: https://www.acls.net/acls-crash-cart.htm

Local groups with fabrication equipment:

• Maker & Hacker spaces
• Local businesses
  • Engineering
  • Medical
    • Biomedical research
    • Dentists
  • Tailors
• Education
  • Schools
  • After-school centers
• Hobbyists and Hackers

Devices

Personal protective equipment (PPE)

Face Shields:

• Designs that do not require a 3D printer:
  • Proto Shield - Fast laser cutter design.
    • https://www.protohaven.org/proto-shield/
  • OpenFacePPE - Simple face shield
    • https://open-face-website.now.sh/
  • Delve
    • https://www.delve.com/insights/face-shield-designs-to-fill-the-gap
    • https://www.delve.com/assets/documents/OPEN-SOURCE-FACE-SHIELD-DRAWING-v1.PDF
  • https://psjh.blob.core.windows.net/covid/PSJH_Faceshield.pdf
• Designs that require a 3D printer:
  • design that matters 3 hole punch design
    • https://www.designthatmatters.org/covid-19
  • https://glia.org/covid-19/
    • https://github.com/GliaX/faceshield
    • https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/canadian-doctor-who-works-in-gaza-3d-prints-face-shields-for-covid-19-pandemic-1.5502964
    • https://mobile.twitter.com/BiellaColeman/status/1241036962884173825
  • Prusa
    • https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25857-prusa-protective-face-shield-rc2
    • https://blog.prusaprinters.org/from-design-to-mass-3d-printing-of-medical-shields-in-three-days/
  • https://budmen.com/
  • https://github.com/scaleworkspace/covid19 also includes prototypes for other related concepts such as disposable masks, eye shields, and ventilator
  • https://github.com/madmaxbr5/faceshield

Cloth Masks:

• https://necsi.edu/sewing-masks
• https://www.project-cloth-masks.com/
• https://imgur.com/a/rOYijtF

3D Printed Face Masks:

• https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4225667
  • Picture and video guide: https://lowellmakes.com/covid-19-response/
• https://longliveyoursmile.com/3d-printable-mask-for-covid-19/
• Copper3D
  • Users are reporting problems with this design.
  • https://copper3d.com/ Antimicrobial filament
  • https://copper3d.com/hackthepandemic/ Mask Design
  • https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/copper3d-organizing-global-campaign-to-3d-print-antimicrobial-masks-on-a-global-scale/
• https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4231792 Frame concept

Medical gowns:

• http://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/Medical_gowns

Diagnostics

3D Printed stethoscope

• https://glia.org/stethoscope/
  • https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope

3D Printed Otoscope:

• https://glia.org/otoscope/
  • https://github.com/GliaX/Otoscope

Therapeutics

Ventilator Specifications:

• UK's specifications for a basic ventilator: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876167/RMVS001_v3.1.pdf

Ventilator Designs:

• https://opensourceventilator.ie/
  • https://gitlab.com/open-source-ventilator/OpenLung
• VentilAid
  • https://www.ventilaid.org/
  • https://gitlab.com/Urbicum/ventilaid
• MIT's E-Vent
  • https://e-vent.mit.edu/
  • https://e-vent.mit.edu/mechanical/
• https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/open-source-ventilator-project/
• MIT Emergency Ventilator (E-Vent)
  • https://e-vent.mit.edu/
• https://www.coventchallenge.com
• https://hackaday.com/2020/03/12/ultimate-medical-hackathon-how-fast-can-we-design-and-deploy-an-open-source-ventilator/
• Venturi valve
  • https://hackaday.com/2020/03/16/3d-printed-parts-keep-respirators-operational-during-covid-19-epidemic/
    • I hear this article about valves seems to be specific to some Italian equipment, but maybe there is something else that could be done to help locally in this same spirit.
  • https://github.com/tombombadilbridpost/CORONA

Multiplying ventilators:

• https://github.com/TechnologyClassroom/yhoseadapter Untested in the field
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/health/coronavirus-ventilator-sharing.html
• https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=uClq978oohY
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1197/j.aem.2006.05.009?download=true

Medical supplies unrelated to COVID-19

3D Printed Tourniquet

• https://glia.org/tourniquet/
  • https://github.com/GliaX/tourniquet

Software

Software listed here is free software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html Concerns should be edited or supplemented.

CAD:

• OpenSCAD
  • http://www.openscad.org/
  • https://github.com/openscad/openscad/
• FreeCAD
  • https://www.freecadweb.org/
  • https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD
• Blender
  • https://www.blender.org/
  • https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/
• ImplicitCAD
  • http://www.implicitcad.org/
  • http://kalli1.faikvm.com/ImplicitCAD/Stable
• SolveSpace
  • http://solvespace.com/index.pl
  • https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace

Slicing for printing:

• Cura
  • https://www.lulzbot.com/cura#download
  • https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/CuraEngine
• Slic3r
  • https://slic3r.org/
  • https://github.com/slic3r/Slic3r

3D print server:

• OctoPrint
  • https://octoprint.org/
  • https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint

Efforts

USA

New England

• Greater Boston Area
  • MGB Center for COVID Innovation https://covidinnovation.partners.org/
  • New England Complex Systems Institute https://necsi.edu/corona-virus-pandemic
  • Artisan's Asylum http://wiki.artisansasylum.com/index.php/COVID
  • Lowell Makes https://lowellmakes.com/covid-19-response/

General

• https://getusppe.org/
• https://findthemasks.com #GetMePPE
  • https://github.com/r-pop/findthemasks
• https://womenin3dprinting.com/covid-19-3d-printing-responses/
• https://crowdfightcovid19.org/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/fke0oz/coronavirus_3d_printing_megathread/