The HDvent Emergency Ventilator System
David Grimshandl, Manuel Gerken, Eleonora Lippi, Binh Tran, Saba Zia, Hassan, Jan Hendrik Becher, Selim Jochim, Matthias Weidem\"uller, Gunnar, F\"ohner, Steffen Brucker, Frank Schumacher, Wolfgang Beldermann, Venelin, Angelov, Stefan Hetzel, Stefan Hummel, Simon Muley

TL;DR
The paper presents the design of the HDvent Emergency Ventilator System, an open-source, mechanically driven device intended to provide a safe, reliable, and economical alternative to commercial ventilators during COVID-19 shortages.
Contribution
It introduces a novel open-source ventilator design that uses mechanical compression and includes control electronics, sensors, and monitoring, suitable for pressure and volume control.
Findings
Design is suitable for open loop ventilation
System includes control electronics and sensors
Prototype documentation is freely available
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…
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TopicsRespiratory Support and Mechanisms
