My friends at the makerspace in Durango, Colorado did a really great
job building equipment for Colorado hospitals.

https://www.durangotelegraph.com/news/top-stories/a-fab-lab/



At 15:29 02.04.2020, you wrote:
>Hi fellow hackers Just as a friendly reminder, when making DIY
>health eqipment, please keep this thread in mind:
>https://twitter.com/FauthNiklas/status/1242064388300947456 There are
>some areas where DIY has its place (see this case of a modded
>Decathlon scuba diving mask converted into a CPAP mask
>https://twitter.com/RiccardoMasutti/status/1242211351189217287), but
>devices like ventilators are probably not it. Besides that, in most
>cases ventilators aren't even the bottleneck, but trained staff that
>can run and monitor those devices is. (At least that's what I heard
>from health professionals involved in Covid treatment.) Furthermore,
>3D printing can result in porous surfaces, which is a property you
>don't want in most medical applications because it's really hard to
>clean / disinfect properly. Anyways, doing things like building
>masks out of fabric, old clothes, napkins or vacuum cleaner bags
>makes sense though, as long as you don't cut up actual medical masks
>to get the filters:
>https://twitter.com/bornity/status/1243605767078502400 Also, don't
>claim any serious protection (they reduce the risk a bit, they don't
>protect) and if you live in Germany don't call them
>"Atemschutzmaske"
>(https://www.mimikama.at/allgemein/gesichtsmasken-achtung-beim-namen/)
>to avoid getting sued. Cheers & keep hacking, Danilo
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