Medtronics released the schematics ,manufacturing jigs and cad files for their PB560 ventilator system

Forwarded from University College Cork ....



In these difficult times medical devices such as ventilators/respirators are in very high demand. Please help us in mobilizing and facilitating production of these devices that are (or could become) desperately needed in hospitals throughout the world to save lives.
Based on global high demand of ventilators and respirators, Medtronic made available plans to facilitate production of ventilators.
In this interview, Omar Ishrak (Medtronic CEO), tells a great deal about different grades of ventilators, how production is being increased, and where they are going:
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/03/25/medtronic-ceo-omar-ishrak-on-ramping-up-ventilator-production.html
In case you know factories and/or students that want a COVID-related project, they can download the plans for this Ventilator and produce them:
https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/e/open-files.html?cmpid=vanity_url_medtronic_com_openventilator_Corp_US_Covid19_FY20
Please help disseminate this information as broadly as possible! Thank you!
 
Damijan Miklavčič
Chair of the EMBEC 2020 &
President of the Slovenian Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
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