Mar 21, 2020
iFixit is building a central resource for maintaining and repairing hospital equipment, including ventilators. We need help from fixers and medical pros to make it relevant, robust, and useful.
Biomedical technicians (biomeds for short) are the repair experts at hospitals, and in many regions they are stretched thin. There are a wide variety of machines made by a number of different manufacturers at hospitals around the world, and there is no single resource for how to repair all of them. We don’t know how many machines will fail once hospitals are truly taxed. We don’t know which parts of those machines are most at risk.
