If you are building vents, please consider submitting your plan to the DoD: https://vulcan-sof.com/login/ng2/submission?collectionUuid=2...
What is Vulcan and how is their elaborate signup/info requirement justified?
Open Ventilator Registry
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#12I know that "hosting and much more is still TBD," but I can contribute a pretty snappy VM on a 1G symmetrical Internet/Internet2 connection. How do I do that?
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#13I feel like this is just going to end up being a website with no usage because no one has spare ventilators. But I really hope they prove me wrong.
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#14I feel like this is just going to end up being a website with no usage because no one has spare ventilators. But I really hope they prove me wrong.
First of all, big shout out to the Open Ventilation Registry crew! The registry will be quite useful.
There's an a small global army of biomedical engineers, ICU doctors, programmers etc. working very hard to have rapidly manufactured ventilators designed, approved, and manufactured. I've seen some of the designs and they're elegant, simple, just work. Yeah, they need fine tuning but that's part of the process.
Humans are insanely awesome when they collaborate.
Hang in there humanity.
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#15I know that "hosting and much more is still TBD," but I can contribute a pretty snappy VM on a 1G symmetrical Internet/Internet2 connection. How do I do that?
You can request to join by opening an issue here: https://github.com/openventilatorregistry/OpenVentilatorRegi...
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#16If you are building vents, please consider submitting your plan to the DoD: https://vulcan-sof.com/login/ng2/submission?collectionUuid=2...
What is Vulcan and how is their elaborate signup/info requirement justified?
It's a marketplace for innovators and special operating forces (SOF) who have requirements, a place where the parties can resolve their mismatches. The signup process has to strongly credential the various types of users with legally binding access controls.
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#17So what's the administrative process of transferring a ventilator from one hospital to another like? Is there any precedent for this? I could see this kind of thing working in a socialized healthcare system but in the US wouldn't it create all kinds of liability and insurance problems?
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#18Do you have any experience in supply chain logistics, the medical industry, incident response?
There are already established systems. How will yours interface with the existing / international norms?
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#19According to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the United States has more than 200,000 available ventilators. However we have less than 50,000 staff trained in mechanical ventilation that can support a maximum of 125,000 patients. Furthermore, we only have 90,000 ICU beds to put patients in.
Yes the media is telling you there is a shortage, they don't understand that the problem isn't a lack of machines.
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#20According to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the United States has more than 200,000 available ventilators. However we have less than 50,000 staff trained in mechanical ventilation that can support a maximum of 125,000 patients. Furthermore, we only have 90,000 ICU beds to put patients in. Yes the media is telling you there is a shortage, they don't understand that the problem isn't a lack of machines.
50k staff and that can only support 125k patients?
So you are saying a person trained on the use of a ventilator can only support a little over 2 patients on a ventilator? Are they sitting between the beds and pedaling the machine?
These are $30k machines. I would think, especially in a crisis situation, a single medical professional could probably handle a few dozen people on ventilators if they had too.