Help Us Crowdsource Repair Information for Hospital Equipment (iFixit)

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Some manufacturers heroically host service manuals for their equipment on their website, and some make them more challenging to locate. There is no single source of information for biomeds to access. Biomed forums are frequently populated with requests for specific PDF service manuals. The closest thing to a central resource is Frank’s Hospital Workshop, a fantastic website run out of Tanzania with hundreds of manuals and very helpful how-to resources for maintaining medical equipment. But Frank’s site is a one-person operation, and a single point of failure, should overwhelming traffic come calling.

We’re going to change that. Our biomed technicians’ time is too precious to waste on internet Easter-egg hunts. iFixit is building a central resource for maintenance and repair of hospital equipment. We need help from fixers everywhere, medical professionals, and biomedical technicians to make sure this is as robust, relevant, and useful as possible.
What we need from the medical community

Model numbers of all of the ventilators in use, BiPAP machines that can do double-duty as ventilators, and other essential equipment such as anesthesia machines.
Estimates on what parts or pieces of ventilators break, or might break, assuming an increased duty cycle.
Advice on what parts that will need to be reused but will be in short supply. For example, bacterial filters will probably become scarce—can we design a 3D-printed case that we could clamshell an N95 mask into for a DIY replacement?

What we need from everyone else

Please help us find service manuals for medical equipment. Frank’s Hospital Workshop has been the leading source for these online, and we want to mirror this information in case his website is inundated. Beyond the manuals themselves, we could use help:

Organizing and building out device pages with common medical equipment.
Reformatting service manuals to be more SEO-friendly and easier for non-engineers to read—screenshot or trim PDFs for use in step-by-step guides with straightforward instructions
Translate all of the above for the widest impact!

Here’s how to upload a manual:

Find or create a device page for the medical product
Upload a photo of the device and attach the manual

If you don’t have time to create pages on iFixit or need to share documents in bulk, email us the file at [e-mail]. A secure way to email large files is Firefox Send. To coordinate with the rest of the repair community and help figure out what documentation is still missing, sound off in our forum.
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https://www.ifixit.com/News/36354/help-us-crowdsource-repair-information-for-hospital-equipment

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1. Something else I would like to add to this

I'm an electronics tech with 35 years of experience under my belt, down to the component level. If there is anything I can do to help you guys on the front lines please let me know.