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  • Low-Cost Open-Source Ventilator-ish Device or PAPR - In the event that COVID-19 hospitalizations exhaust the availability of FDA approved ventilators. This project documents the process of converting a low-cost CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) blower into a rudimentary non-invasive pressure support ventilator that could help with breathing during respiratory distress.
  • openVentilator - MIT openVentilator
  • OpenVentPK - a team in pakistan just started on vent project.
  • Open Source Ventilator (OSV) Ireland - OSV Ireland was formed by Colin Keogh, Conall Laverty & David Pollard, with the goal of building a focused team in Ireland to begin development of a Field Emergency Ventilator (FEV) in partnership with the Irish Health Service. To date we have formed a team of engineers, designers and medical practitioners to develop new, low resource interventions, all working collaboratively online. Bag Valve Masks (BVM), 3D printed and traditionally manufactured components are being considered to maximise potential manufacturing capabilities. We will also include other challenges and problems as they arise from frontline healthcare workers, which we will encourage our volunteers to tackle.
  • https://www.projectopenair.org/ - We are working on medical devices, to have a fast and easy solution that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide.
  • Pandemic Ventilator - We are a team of engineers with backgrounds in nuclear power, submarine life support, medical device, quality assurance, and project management from Berkeley, Denver, and places around the world an emergency ventilator to address the looming shortage in the developing world.
  • The Pandemic Ventilator Project - Assembly instructions for a DIY Ventilator prototype. Many of us modify, hack, re-purpose, and DIY to save money, build something unique, create art, or show the world that there is a better way to use some device. And sometimes, just because it's cool. This is something different. It is a ventilator, and ventilators are meant to save lives. This project is called the Pandemic Ventilator, because it is meant to be used as a ventilator of last resort during a possible avian (bird) flu pandemic.
  • OxVent - We are a team of Engineers, Clinicians & Manufacturers from @oxengsci @KingsCollegeLon @UniofOxford building a rapid prototype Ventilator for COVID-19. Join us!
  • VentilatorPAL - VentilatorPAL is a not-for-profit solution to the acute lack of respirators for the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 patients around the world.
  • VentilAid - We are a group of engineers and designers who constantly develop and share to the public the VentilAid project, open source ventilator, that can be made anywhere locally with 3D printer and very basic parts. Ventilators are essential to keep breathing when faced with the complications of COVID19.
  • AmboVent - Israel, probably open source project. Not much information available, except it's being tested by Israel Regulation Authority
  • DIY Beatmungsgeräte - German opensource ventilator project
  • ApolloBVM‌ - Designing the Automated Bag Valve Mask:
  • Ventilator by EBCore - Unlike other ventilators the EVS is aimed at providing lifesaving ventilation for patients with COVID-19 and includes options to control the respiratory rate, tidal volume, PEEP, and Peak pressure relief. There are no interactive real time graphics of pressure sensors. There is a benefit in simplicity.
  • https://www.OxyGEN.protofy.xyz/ - OxyGEN is an emergency device for the COVID-19 health crisis
  • Electric Blower Based Portable Emergency Ventilator - Abstract: During CPR the victim will most
  • Saving Babies' Lives Starts With Aquarium Pumps And Ingenuity - Saving Babies' Lives Starts With Aquarium Pumps And Ingenuity
  • Specifications for simple open source mechanical ventilator - This is a living document intended to give non-clinicians/non-respiratory therapists an idea of key ventilator features and one proposed simplified design. I encourage other healthcare professionals who are very familiar with ventilators and their use to give me feedback using the comments feature to improve these specifications.
  • coronavirusmakers - forum in Spanish about DIY ventilators.
  • https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/home - The Coronavirus Tech Handbook provides a space for technologists, civic organisations, public and private institutions, researchers and specialists of all kinds to collaborate on a rapid and sophisticated response to the coronavirus outbreak and subsequent impacts. It is a quickly evolving resource with thousands of active expert contributors.
  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TrHL40-RwSL_yWivaRF8GyKmLVJMr63j - lot's of specifications and documentations for different ventilators.
  • EASY COVID 19 - Emergency mask for hospital ventilators
  • Google Spreadsheet - nice comparison analysis of a couple of projects. According to credentials inside is made by [https://www.pubinv.org/](https://www.pubinv.org/)
  • Coronavirus open kit - open projects respiratory health projects that can be freely reproduced and enriched
  • Code Life Ventilator Challenge - The Montreal General Hospital Foundation , in collaboration with the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), is launching a global innovation challenge, backed by a $200,000 CAD prize, calling for teams to design a simple, low-cost, easy-to-manufacture and easy-to-maintain ventilator which could be deployed anywhere needed to save lives.
  • Open Source Ventilator Project by The Center for Safety, Simulation and Advanced Learning Technologies - This open source project has been created to address predicted ventilator shortage worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic and host open source contributions – Distribute freely
  • Electric Blower Based Portable Emergency Ventilator - Abstract: During CPR the victim will most
  • A low oxygen consumption pneumatic ventilator for emergency construction during a respiratory failure pandemic - The UK influenza pandemic plan predicts up to 750 000 additional deaths with hospitals prioritising patients against inadequate resources. We investigated three prototype low‐cost, gas‐efficient, pneumatic ventilators in a test lung model at different compliance and rate settings. Mean (SD) oxygen consumption was 0.913 (0.198) and 1.119 (0.267) l.min−1 at tidal volumes of 500 ml and 700 ml respectively. Values of FIo2 increased marginally as lung compliance reduced, reflecting the increased ventilator workload and consequent increased enrichment of breathing gas by waste oxygen from the pneumatic mechanism. We also demonstrated that a stable nitric oxide concentration could be delivered by this design following volumetric principles. It is possible to make a gas‐efficient ventilator costing less than £200 from industrial components for use where oxygen is available at 2‐4 bar, with no pressurised air or electrical requirements. Such a device could be mass‐produced for crises characterised by an overwhelming demand for mechanical ventilation and a limited oxygen supply.
  • Special Issue on Open-Source COVID19 Medical Hardware - Large groups of makers, engineers, and medical professionals are already collaborating on the web to make open source medical devices, such as ventilators, to have a fast and easy solution that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide. However, there is a concern in the medical community about using these devices without some assurance that these devices will operate as intended and not do harm. This special issue is dedicated to vetting the technical specifications and reproducibility of open medical hardware that can help during this global pandemic. Due to the urgency all articles will be rapidly peer-reviewed, published open access upon acceptance, and all article processing charges will be waived.
  • OpenLung BVM Ventilator - An [IN PROGRESS] open source, low resource, quick deployment ventilator design that utilizes a bag valve mask (BVM or Ambu-bag) as a core component. An open collaboration with http://opensourceventilator.ie/.
  • VentilatorPAL - VentilatorPAL is a not-for-profit solution to the acute lack of respirators for the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 patients around the world.