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Ventilator for coronavirus Covid-19 using LabVIEW control and standard components
Leland_Palmer
03-26-2020 09:14 AM
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It might be possible to build large numbers of ventilators for coronavirus patients using LabVIEW software and standard PC power supply and motion control components.
There is an already published paper on this:
Perhaps National Instruments would want to produce these or similar ventilators as a public service.
With LabVIEW software and standard PC based components, it might be possible to produce thousands of ventilators very quickly.
03-26-2020 09:15 AM
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Oh, the linked paper was for rats. Here is a human based study. I think standard motion control and power supply modules could be assembled using LabVIEW to make thousands of these ventilators very quickly.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a6d9/81e12cf42d30951d86e06ad759a4fc0deebb.pdf
Anyone reading this post, please think about this, and how to implement it. This is a complicated project, requiring real engineering professionals, from National Instruments or some other competent organization.
Majicz
03-31-2020 02:58 PM
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https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Mechanical-ventilator-simulation/td-p/1063997?profile.language=en
Hackthon link
Let me know if anyone is intersted to work together for a open source hardware and labview based ventilator system.
Best
Mathews
jacobs.mathews@gmail.com
EamonnFPMcKerna04-01-2020 03:42 PM
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While your intentions are noble, LabVIEW is a cumbersome way to go for a ventilator.
The Arduino approach shows some promise:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042234v1
and there are other efforts afoot to consider.
Availability of ready-made parts, cost, reliability, monitoring and testing are major concerns. Also remember that pure oxygen has safety issues. I'd suggest identifying key requirements before proceeding too far.
In the end, success will result from multiple parallel efforts from nimble teams, so please don't be discouraged.
Best of luck!
Eamonn
JÞB
04-01-2020 04:16 PM
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@Leland_Palmer wrote:
It might be possible to build large numbers of ventilators for coronavirus patients using LabVIEW software and standard PC power supply and motion control components.
There is an already published paper on this:
Perhaps National Instruments would want to produce these or similar ventilators as a public service.
With LabVIEW software and standard PC based components, it might be possible to produce thousands of ventilators very quickly.
I believe that it very unlikely that tens of thousands of ventilator may be produced. I wrote many of the production tests. There is neither the test gear nor the integrators required
"Should be" isn't "Is" -Jay
