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.
  • Register and login.
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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.
• Share this wiki page!
  • Share the blog post: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/hackers-and-hospitals-how-you-can-help

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

Before fabricating any equipment, check first with your local hospitals to see if this is what they need and will use. Each hospital will have its own requirements.

Reviewed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE )

Face Shields

• Approved by National Institutes of Health (NIH), 3d print with PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA, Nylon: https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013238
• Approved by National Institutes of Health (NIH), 3d print with PETG: https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013309

Unreviewed PPE

Face Shields

• 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

• 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

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

• Rowan University College of Engineering designed 3D printable face mask with replaceable nonwoven filter material
  • not FDA or CDC reviewed/approved, but being evaluated at Cooper Union and Ispira Health Systems
  • Instructions and STL part files at https://engineering.rowan.edu/research-centers/mask/index.html
    • information all released under Creative Commons licenses as detailed on that page.

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

Pandemic tracking:

• The Fevermap
  • https://fevermap.net/
  • https://gitlab.com/fevermap/fevermap/
• Symptomradar
  • https://github.com/futurice/symptomradar

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
    • Reach out your local school districts and their unions to use their fabrication equipment! Much of the equipment is going unused as schools are closing.
  • After-school centers
• Hobbyists and Hackers

Needs

These Hospitals have put out a public call for help. I would advise against shipping things from far away. If your local hospitals are not listed, reach out to them to find out their needs.

= Massachusetts

• Cambridge Health Alliance: https://www.challiance.org/about/newsroom/personal_protective_equipment_ppe_homemade_donatio_1180
• Melrose Wakefield Hospital: https://www.melrosewakefield.org/news/melrosewakefield-healthcare-seeks-donations-of-personal-protective-equipment/
• Lowell General Hospital: https://www.lowellgeneral.org/news-and-media/news/calling-our-crafty-community
• Cooley Dickenson Healthcare: https://www.cooleydickinson.org/home/coronavirus-resources/donations/

Efforts

USA

Maine

• • Helping Maine Hospitals: https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/helping-maine-hospitals-6O5mvRJ

Massachusetts

• • 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/

Michigan

• • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Donations Being Accepted: https://www.mclaren.org/main/ppe-personal-protective-equipment-donations
  • COVID-19 "Operation Face Shield": https://www.hunnywaggin.com/covid-19-eye-sheild-pipeline
• Detroit
  • Detroit Sewn Masks: https://www.detroitsewn.com/

New Hampshire

• • Face Shields for NH: https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/face-shields-for-nh-7RpKg5a

New York

• NYC Face Shields: https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/nyc-face-shields-GARxvQm

Rhode Island

• Rhode Island Covid-19 3D Printing Team: https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/rhode-island-covid-19-3d-printing-team-1GQer56

Vermont

• Vermont COVID-19 face shields: https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/vermont-covid-19-face-shields-2Rd88R7

Czech Republic

• Jak sestavit Průša Obličejový Štít - RC1/RC2/RC3: https://manual.prusa3d.com/Guide/Jak+sestavit+Pr%C5%AF%C5%A1a+Obli%C4%8Dejov%C3%BD+%C5%A0t%C3%ADt+-+RC1-RC2-RC3/1526

Poland

• face shield to laser cut, without 3D printing: https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:covid-19:english

General

• https://3dprint.nih.gov/
• 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/

Hackathons

Hackathons with a free software focus:

• April 5-11, 2020 COVID-19 Biohackathon https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20
  • https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/Covid-19-hackathon