Ventilators and respirators for everyone, everywhere.
Our mission is to build open-source, high-quality essential medical equipment for people in distress, wherever they are.
Our mission is to build open-source, high-quality essential medical equipment for people in distress, wherever they are.
RespiraWorks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to rapidly design a low-cost, open-source ventilator and powered air-purifying respirator for communities underserved by the global supply chain. Our objective is to provide the know-how and technology to enable others to manufacture these systems and put them in the hands of those who need them most.
We have partnered with a team in India, FoundryM, to deploy and manufacture ventilators to address COVID-19 cases there. The India team is supported by AMTZ, a research and development institution park and medical device incubation center created by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in India.
Most recently, we have combined forces with the engineers, physicians, and regulatory specialists of BostonVent, whose volunteers are professionally affiliated with Harvard Medical School and MIT. We are pleased to combine their expertise with the knowledge base of RespiraWorks' volunteers, who hail from Stanford, Caltech, and top-tier universities and think tanks from around the world.
Together, we are dedicated to building affordable, open-source essential medical equipment for anyone in need.
RespiraWorks extends its thanks to Jathen Chaffin, Antoine Pautrat, Kobe Potter, and Alessandro Sanchioni, a team of students at Southern Utah University. Before their work, the ventilator’s blower mount was a complicated design that required special clamping during assembly and only supported one specific model of blower. They completely redesigned it and made a flexible, easy-to-assemble mount that supports four models of blowers and can be easily adapted to many more. They even tested it against the ISO 80601 standard medical device drop test. By making the blower mount more adaptable and more serviceable, they have helped RespiraWorks in its mission to produce medical devices that can reach as many people as possible.
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“This is what making a difference looks like! And provides a
great example to all of us in this time of need. Best wishes to the team
and effort!”
- Andrew Sowder, Project Donor