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Re: Volume Assembly


 

Liability is your first concern.? ?Nothing will be used without a hospital that is desperate, and you must have a contact with them, and in making that contact you need to get liability protection for yourself.? ?The majority of people put onto a ventilator are DYING -- so you as a potential builder are at huge legal risk to yourself and your family.? ?You might offer for the hospital to take up the open source ventilator from UF and you might offer to be a volunteer consultant IF THEY WILL PROTECT You from liability.? ? That means they agree to defend you and pay any damages.? ?All of this is unlkely -- but of equal consequence to you as dying from COVID-19.? ?

So getting a cconnection?into some hospital is probably your goal.? ?And being honest about your legal concerns.? ?The hospital can even do their own EUA application to the FDA based on what YOU FOLKS build from the open source information on the UF CSSALT page or here, if they wish.? ?Hospitaals have LOTS of lawyers and they can lawyer up a consent form that makes suing you or them much more difficult for people whose lives you're trying to save.

At some point --- people are? going to find an even better drug cocktail, and all the people on ventilators?are going to be salvaged instead of gong on to die from immune dysfunction.? We just have to keep them alive until that is found, if posssible.? ??

Gordon


On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 5:25 AM Erich Schulz <erichbschulz@...> wrote:
Hi Phil, I've written a bit of an overview (relating to ventilators in general, rather than this project specifically)?



Hope it helps. Happy to chat.?

Erich?

On Thu., 9 Apr. 2020, 11:52 am Phil M. via , <oneppm=[email protected]> wrote:
I'm located in Silicon Valley (Mountain View, CA) surrounded by idle electronic design and assembly resources. A number of us would love to get a viable ventilator built and donated where needed quickly.

Please let us know how we can help.

Regards,
Phil Marcoux
BSEE UF '70

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