Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
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#2This is very cool. I was wondering the other day if my CPAP machine (same model) would be capable of doubling as a ventilator and I'm surprised that someone has already thought of this and provided a solution.
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#3Not a doctor. A major issue with using this type of CPAP machine on a Covid-19 positive person is the high amount of aerosolized virus particles it exhausts. Anyone using this should be extremely careful and know what they're doing. That being said, doctors in many countries are using positive air pressure machines with an air-tight helmet/bag with filtered exhaust.
Re: Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
#4Not a doctor. A major issue with using this type of CPAP machine on a Covid-19 positive person is the high amount of aerosolized virus particles it exhausts. Anyone using this should be extremely careful and know what they're doing. That being said, doctors in many countries are using positive air pressure machines with an air-tight helmet/bag with filtered exhaust.
That's what it says right there on the page already: "Additional equipment like viral filters are also required."
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#5Not a doctor. A major issue with using this type of CPAP machine on a Covid-19 positive person is the high amount of aerosolized virus particles it exhausts. Anyone using this should be extremely careful and know what they're doing. That being said, doctors in many countries are using positive air pressure machines with an air-tight helmet/bag with filtered exhaust.
Mt. Sinai developed a procedure for using these safely in a clinical setting, by using an alternate patient circuit with viral filters to capture the aerosolized particles:
https://health.mountsinai.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/20...
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#6Messing with vents if you don't know what you're doing sounds like a sure fire way to kill yourself.
Re: Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
#7This is an informative video in what is involved in designing ventilators.
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#8Not a doctor. But I am seeing growing evidence that ventilators are overused potentially. From ref [1]:
> But as doctors learn more about treating Covid-19, and question old dogma about blood oxygen and the need for ventilators, they might be able to substitute simpler and more widely available devices.
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> "In a small study last week in Annals of Intensive Care, physicians who treated Covid-19 patients at two hospitals in China found that the majority of patients needed no more than a nasal cannula."
1 - https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-...
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#9ventilators don't just pump air. they also monitor and control the amount of air, and beep when something is wrong. plus a bunch of other features...
Re: Airbreak.dev: Jailbreak your CPAP machine to turn them into ventilators
#10Messing with vents if you don't know what you're doing sounds like a sure fire way to kill yourself.
I think the risks are overstated. Probably not anywhere near surefire.