C Pap machines into Ventilator. Maybe, Maybe not!

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  • HRDWRK

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
    Jan 7, 2013
    2,661
    39°43′19.92216″ N
    We Can Avoid a Ventilator Shortage by Jailbreaking CPAP Machines

    This may help if needed or not according to the article.


    Due to a shortage of lifesaving breathing machines amid the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidelines last month that allow hospitals, universities, and manufacturers to rejigger sleep apnea machines—like continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) units and bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) devices—into ventilators.

    Now, free instructions are available online to help you jailbreak a CPAP machine, though they're meant as a proof of concept.

    It's a good article and full of information..

    https://flip.it/XAiHlX
     

    lazarus

    Ultimate Member
    Jun 23, 2015
    13,741
    I don't think so,if you can get a test and to a hospital.

    But for the preppers in us, I think the info to have our own if needed down the shtf road my be invaluable.

    Or not..

    More likely you’d kill someone. Unless you happen to be a respiratory specialist.
     

    StantonCree

    Watch your beer
    Jan 23, 2011
    23,932
    Is there really a shortage now?

    I dunno about yet but i know two weeks ago my wife was going to a central regional ED with 2-8 patients in the ED. She’s now going in tonight with 32 patients and at least 22 are COVIDS.

    We are supposed to be peaking but she doesn’t think so yet.
     

    joppaj

    Sheepdog
    Staff member
    Moderator
    Apr 11, 2008
    46,724
    MD
    I dunno about yet but i know two weeks ago my wife was going to a central regional ED with 2-8 patients in the ED. She’s now going in tonight with 32 patients and at least 22 are COVIDS.

    We are supposed to be peaking but she doesn’t think so yet.

    My wife would tell you similiar horror stories.

    The ECMO numbers are VERY bad.
     

    lazarus

    Ultimate Member
    Jun 23, 2015
    13,741
    I dunno about yet but i know two weeks ago my wife was going to a central regional ED with 2-8 patients in the ED. She’s now going in tonight with 32 patients and at least 22 are COVIDS.

    We are supposed to be peaking but she doesn’t think so yet.

    Maryland hasn’t yet.
     

    budman93

    Ultimate Member
    Mar 1, 2013
    5,284
    Frederick County
    I dont see how anything you can do to a cpap machine will make it function like a ventilator. Ventilators are very complex. They actually breathe for a person and they can also control pressure, volume, breath rate and a whole bunch of stuff. A modified cpap machine is not going to cut it.
     

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