PVP1–The People's Ventilator Project: a Fully Open, Low-Cost
medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.02.20206037; this version posted October 5, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license . PVP1–The People’s Ventilator Project: A fully open, low-cost, pressure-controlled ventilator Julienne LaChancea, Tom J. Zajdela, Manuel Schottdorfb, Jonny L. Saundersc, Sophie Dvalid, Chase Marshalle, Lorenzo Seirupf, Daniel A. Nottermang, and Daniel J. Cohena aDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA bPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA cDepartment of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 dDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA gDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA eRailPod, Inc., Boston, MA 02127, USA fNew York ISO, Rensselaer, NY 12144, USA We present a fully open ventilator platform–The People’s Ven- that can be built for less than $1,300 by a single person in tilator: PVP1– with complete documentation and detailed build few days, requiring neither specialized tools nor specialist instructions, and a DIY cost of $1,300 USD. Here, we validate knowledge. As a point of reference, the lower-end average PVP1 against key performance criteria specified in the U.S. market values of open ventilators (such as the freely-released Food and Drug Administration’s Emergency Use Authorization Puritan Bennett 560 (Medtronic, Inc.) (2) or the Mechanical for Ventilators.
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