Personal Protective Equipment: Re-use, Open source 3D printing designs and more
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Please also see the Masks page: 🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/masks
Donate and/or Request Supplies
Get Us PPE
Site aiming to get PPE to healthcare providers. Users can request PPE, donate money or PPE, or register as a maker.
MedSupplyDriveUK
Volunteer organization aiming to redirect unused PPE to frontline medical staff
Frontline Map
Gives people on the front lines of COVID-19 a quick and easy way to communicate what personal protective equipment (PPE) they need, when and where they need it
Royal College of Physicians
🇬🇧🔗https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/cpr-personal-protective-equipment-and-covid-19
Royal College of Physicians - contains a form where healthcare workers can report shortages of PPE to the NHS and the government
Batch.Shield
🇬🇧🔗https://batchworks.typeform.com/to/bKRZGL
Request form for face shields made to protect COVID-19 front line workers in the UK. The face shields follow WHO guidelines.
Donation Requests
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
🇺🇸🔗https://www.brighamandwomens.org/deptforms/covid-19-donations
Site for donating money, equipment, and supplies to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Donation Request for KVH, Ellensburg, WA
🇺🇸🔗https://www.kvhealthcare.org/foundation/donate/
Web page for donating to a small hospital
Lists/Clearinghouses of Projects for PPE Donation and Requests
Spreadsheet of Donation Projects
🇺🇸🔗https://tinyurl.com/ppeclearinghouse
Spreadsheet collecting several PPE Donation projects
PPE Coalition
🇺🇸🔗https://www.ppecoalition.com/
Umbrella project keeping track of and connecting the various initiatives trying to improve the supply of PPE
Donate Your PPE
Volunteer organization connecting healthcare providers with donors in their local communities. Organized by US region
Spreadsheet of Hospitals
🇺🇸🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/12a5YO0Z9RpHZk9Zkzl4NOj9CbjzhFfoKjPLFFC-21LU/preview
List of hospitals in the USA accepting homemade PPE
communitySOS
🇺🇸 eu ca🔗http://CommunitySOS.org
Volunteer-run website helping 'Helpers' easily locate those seeking supplies
Project N95
Project N95 aims to match up hospitals in need of equipment with suppliers who can provide it. It contains a form to request equipment
PPE Exchange
🌏🔗https://covid19masks.info/webapps/
COVID-19 Masks connects hospitals in need of PPE to volunteers. Volunteers can commit to provide masks to hospitals that have expressed a need. Worldwide
⚠️NOTE: This site doesn't seem to be active
NIOSH PPE Tracker App
🔗https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ppe/ppeapp.html
Helps healthcare facilities estimate how much personal protective equipment (PPE) they will use and track inventory. From occupational health division of US CDC.
How to Organize a Community PPE Drive
How to Organize a Community PPE Drive
Comprehensive guide on how to collect and distribute PPE
Using personal protective equipment (PPE)
Dropbox Link to Guidelines
🇬🇧🔗https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w6z0ekcwi9v10p0/AAD3ez3h52scAlBWZZ91uVSra?dl=0
These guidelines are from the UK National Health Service and focus on PPE use for various healthcare and frontline workers -- the guidelines were issued on April 2nd, 2020
COVID-19: Removal and disposal of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUo5O1JmLH0&feature=youtu.be
This video shows how to safely doff (or remove) the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGPs), specific to COVID-19. This guidance outlines infection control for healthcare providers assessing possible cases of COVID-19.
Brighton Anaesthesia FFP3 Donning & Doffing
📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=tGVra7LB2es&feature=emb_logo
Text and video documenting Brighton Anesthesia FFP3 Donning & Doffing
Efficacy of PPE
For specific information about masks see also the handbook page focusing on masks:
🔗 https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/masks
What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks?
🔗https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/
Discusses a study which household materials protect best against bacterial and viral particles. Though some materials protect much better than others, even the least effective materials captured 50% or more virus particles.
Facebook post
🔗https://www.facebook.com/jim.duehr/posts/10218980271354960
In-depth post by a PhD in virology on Coronavirus transmission. Contains references/links
Unmasked: Experts explain necessary respiratory protection for COVID-19
News article from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. Headings: differences between masks and respirators, how the virus travels in the air, protection may depend on resources, keeping health workers from becoming patients.
Facebook post
⚠️🔗https://www.facebook.com/MrHenryBemis/posts/10159579527538858
In-depth post discussing: simple improvised mask procedure, increasing the effectiveness and sterility of improvised cloth masks, salt and surfactant mediated viral deactivation, n95 electrostatic charge preservation, disinfectant and decontamination procedures.
NOTE: Unsure of the qualifications of the person who wrote the post
PPE Re-use and Sterilisation
For specific information about masks see also the handbook page focusing on masks:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/masks
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Decontamination and Reuse of Filtering Facepiece Respirators (FFR)
🔗https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/decontamination-reuse-respirators.html
Decontamination and Reuse of Filtering Facepiece Respirators (FFR): The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issues guidelines for sterilizing FFRs in the case of shortages of equipment
SARS-CoV-2 Heat Inactivation Information
🔗https://github.com/linuxtim/SARS-CoV-2-Heat-Inactivation/wiki
This document contains guidance on relevant research for emergency re-use of PPE (masks etc.) following heat inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 pathogen)
COVID-19 Evidence Service | Addressing COVID-19 Face Mask Shortages [v1.1]
🔗https://stanfordmedicine.app.box.com/v/covid19-PPE-1-1
Info sheet by Stanford Medicine Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab. Discusses protocol for when to wear N95s, the best replacements for N95s if they run out, whether N95s remain effective with reuse, whether N95s can be sterilized for reuse.
N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) Process for Decontamination and Reuse
🔗https://www.nebraskamed.com/sites/default/files/documents/covid-19/n-95-decon-process.pdf
Nebraska Medicine sterilization process for N95s: N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) Process for Decontamination and Reuse
COVID-19 Evidence Service | Can face masks be safely disinfected and reused
🔗https://aim.stanford.edu/covid-19-evidence-service/
Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media lab factsheet on 'can masks be safely disinfected and reused?' Info sheet by Stanford Medicine Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab. Discusses protocol for when to wear N95s, the best replacements for N95s if they run out, whether N95s remain effective with reuse,whether N95s can be sterilized for reuse.
Makeshift PPE Designs
Collections of Patterns
Precious Plastic Forum: Open Source Projects - Coronavirus
🔗https://forum.precious-plastic.org/t/projects-open-source/71
Precious Plastic Forum - collection of data and projects for all sorts of protective gear.
3D printing in support of COVID-19 containment efforts
🔗https://enable.hp.com/us-en-3dprint-covid-19-containment-applications
3D printing designs for face shields, Stopgap Face mask, wrist cover, hands free door opener, personal door opener, mask adjuster, CIIRC RP95-3D, Field respirator.
Gowns
Links to Patterns
🔗 https://www.kvhealthcare.org/coronavirus/covid-help/
or as PDF https://media.rainpos.com/220/quick_hospital_gown_1.pdf
Scroll down for a selection of sewing patterns (Use 100% Cotton, as it is resilient to boil washing, so gowns can be reused)
Face Visors: 3D Printing
Face Shield Pattern
⚠️🔗https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4222407
Easy to produce, if properly utilized could be useful to protect eyes and face of low-risk operators. DOES NOT PROTECT against inhalation of chemical and biological agents
Prusa Face Shield
🔗 Prusa Printers 3D Printed Face Shield
They are talking with the Czech government about using this design there and have been through two verifications with the Czech Ministry of Health
Protective Visor by 3DVerkstan
⚠️🔗 Protective visor optimized for fast FDM printing
Optimized for a simple print and for using Overhead Projector film in A4 format, holes easily made by a regular hole puncher. DOES NOT PROTECT against inhalation
PPE straps from Ortho / Resistance Band - cleanable, comfy, available
📺 🔗 Straps for visors and masks, cleanable, comfy, readily available
Visor and mask straps from Orthopaedic Resistance Band, which is cleanable, comfortable and readily available in all hospitals
Hannan Snap Visor
This design for a face shield conforms with relevant essential health and safety regulations under the PPE Regulations and with requirements of BS EN 166:2002 (Personal eye protection)
Face Visors: Other Methods
Response to Covid-19 by the Maker and Industrial Community of Porto
🔗 https://www.vivalabporto.com/covid-19
Patterns for face plate shields, masks, and protective goggles in Portuguese and English
#MakerVsVirus
🇩🇪🔗https://www.makervsvirus.org/
Makervsvirus.org network of makers delivering 3D-printed and injection molded face shields in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
plasticpreneur
Plasticpreneur (doing circular GmbH, Austria) is a social business that offers ‘Face Shields’ and ‘Face Shields Production Kits’ for local production anywhere in the world
Coronavirus / Flu Reusable Emergency Respiratory Mask
🔗https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4141338
📷 https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipObmOS3r4KE3ffR40eABsHSlWn3WBTujs7OtVnbrM8Gt22u4Ex0h40ljaSCoNEb3A?key=XzBwdUowQmVuYjVmS3pub3pmRG9sZDRaM3RyZ3dB
RFace shield using Overhead Projector film with 4 holes (drilled, melted or punched) through which to thread the arms of glasses. Helps condition the wearer against touching their face with their hands
Makers Unite: Digitally Fabricate Face Shields
Face Shield mask for CNC Router that creates 200 masks in the time it takes to 3D print one (approx. 3.5 hrs). All files, instructions, materials included
Droplet Barriers
Modified Aerosol Box for Intubation
🔗 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yHvTP02ImrphRiXdar9zFRalhZnYN0_B
Design files for an improvement on the Taiwanese Aerosol Box for adult and pediatric intubation
Droplet Barrier Desk
🔗 https://ghcscw.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/GHC_SCW_Desktop_Droplet_Barrier.pdf
Design for a droplet barrier desk. An open source project
Improvised COVID-19 Droplet Barrier for Healthcare Providers
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMLW_w-t2cc&feature=emb_logo
Plexiglas droplet barrier to protect healthcare workers.
Project to study and design very simple to make/improvise machinery which could be used to deactivate Coronavirus on used PPE (e.g. in critical healthcare settings to work around equipment shortages)
Groups for Open Source Supply Discussions
Manila Protective Gear Sewing Club
🇵🇭🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/551597602131282/
A group of volunteers from the fashion industry producing open-source patterns and PPE to distribute to hospitals in the Philippines
Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies
🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupplies
Facebook group discussing open source COVID-19 medical supplies
Covid-19 Mask Makers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex...
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/2655603758017569/
COVID-19 Mask Makers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex
A small group of folk with printers printing, collecting and distributing the Euro version of the #3DVFaceShield
The UK's PPE maker network
Site connects local PPE makers to those in need of PPE
#MakerVsVirus
DE🔗https://www.makervsvirus.org/en/
EU / Germany initiative to connect requests with supply
