HACKERS and HOSPITALS

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

The wiki is divided into four sections: Participate, Needs, Resources, and Efforts. Participate is a list of ways that anyone can help with the project. Needs are specific hospitals that are requesting help. Resources are projects that are working toward helping. Efforts are groups that are working on the various projects.

Participate

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

Participate is a list of ways that anyone can help with the project.

Share this wiki page!
- Share the blog post: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/hackers-and-hospitals-how-you-can-help
Join the mailing list!
- https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/hackersandhospitals
Edit this page! Anyone can do so.
- Register and login.
  - If you are not an associate member of the FSF, make a non-member account here: https://my.fsf.org/user/register
  - Login here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=HACKERS+and+HOSPITALS
- Search for plans that are licensed under a free culture license and post them here.
- If you are working on a plan...
  - 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.
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.
Consider emailing the project heads at https://covidinnovation.partners.org/wg-info/ to join a MGB Center for COVID Innovation working group. Note: The group uses Zoom, Slack, and Google Drive, but has assured me that their result would be public domain.
- Watch the MGB Center for COVID Innovation Town Hall video if you missed it: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=SDl6M7-sMy4

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

Needs

Needs are specific hospitals and organizations that are requesting help.

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.

USA

Arkansas

Baxter Regional Medical Center: https://www.baxterregional.org/foundation/covid-19-pandemic-needs/face-masks-hats/

Massachusetts

Cambridge Health Alliance: https://www.challiance.org/about/newsroom/personal_protective_equipment_ppe_homemade_donatio_1180
Cooley Dickenson Healthcare: https://www.cooleydickinson.org/home/coronavirus-resources/donations/
Emerson Hospital (Concord, MA): https://www.emersonhospital.org/coronavirus-covid-19-resources/covid-19-help
Lowell General Hospital: https://www.lowellgeneral.org/news-and-media/news/calling-our-crafty-community
Melrose Wakefield Hospital: https://www.melrosewakefield.org/news/melrosewakefield-healthcare-seeks-donations-of-personal-protective-equipment/

Resources

Resources are projects that are working toward helping.

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

Face Masks

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/
- 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

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.