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Covid-19: Meeting the challenges through Engineering

Jeremy D Watson
I was president of the IET for 2016-17, and have been asked by government to gather practical and innovative ideas from our Engineering communities. So, please enter any ideas you might have in this thread that might help address and mitigate the Covid-19 crisis. Ideas might include digital tracking / monitoring through therapy equipment and beyond. Even ideas outside your usual expertise domain will be welcome. Now’s the time for Engineering to show we can change the world!
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    Getting the impression standardised components would help and possibly issues with electronics/ control systems.  Just wonder if something like a Rasberry Pi could be utilised - could be sourced from the public at volume if needed.
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    This post relates to the autumn rather than right now. IET's Healthcare Technologies Community has been planning a International Conference in Sept 2020 on "Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Low Resource Settings".AHT2020. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic we have changed from holding a physical event to a digital/on-line event or series of events. As one of the themes we are considering focusing on how low-cost appropriate healthcare technologies can help in managing and mitigating outbreaks of infectious diseases, particularly in low resources settings where they may have limited healthcare infrastructure. If you are interested in this you can contact Gemma Hadley, Healthcare Technologies Community Manager or me, Len Cornish, at LenCornish@aol.com. Co-Chair AHT2020. Take care and keep safe.
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    Hi all,


    A call has come out for volunteers providing engineering support for the new field hospitals if you have any suitable contacts to forward on to:
    https://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/engineering-response-to-covid-19/active-government-calls
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    Zoe Webster, Data Economy Director at Innovate UK asks if we know of any firms in the Dagenham area (or within commuting distance) who might have spare/furloughed electronics engineers (with technical grade electronic engineering skills) who might be able to help with ventilator assembly and testing in the immediate term.  She wondered if IET might be able to identify relevant engineers or companies. Please respond to me directly::jeremy.watson@ucl.ac.uk

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    Mathworks have developed a "Medical Ventilator with Lung" simulation model, available at https://uk.mathworks.com/help/physmod/simscape/examples/medical-ventilator-with-lung-model.html


    Also an offer of FREE software licenses + free engineering support on simulation, control design, rapid prototyping and production software development to anyone who wants to put it to use: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonadelman_medical-ventilator-with-lung-model-activity-6648147155699679232-RJKQ
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    A Parliamentary link (POST):https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/research-impact-at-the-uk-parliament/knowledge-exchange-at-uk-parliament/
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    Engineering solutions to Covid19 – Government call-to-action

    Hello all,

    As part of the urgent need for innovation from engineers and other support in the UK due to the spread of Covid-19.

    The UK Government faces the monumental challenge of mobilising and supporting businesses and organisations to design/manufacture tools and devices in a very short period of time.

    There is an urgent demand for technologies ranging from providing intensive care, rapid training and education of healthcare personnel, to supporting people who are self-isolating or working from home.

    How to get in touch with the UK government
    If you are a company or an innovator with a potential COVID-19 related solution, please contact the relevant national agency direct:

    Vaccines - Contact Public Health England: nervtag@phe.gov.uk

    Ventilators - Contact the Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS): ventilator.support@beis.gov.uk or call 0300 456 3565

    Innovation and Tech - Contact NHSX: DNHSX@nhsx.nhs.uk
    If you have a tech innovation that can support vulnerable people who are isolated, visit the NHSX TechForce19 website.

    Diagnostics - Contact Public Health England: coviddiagnostics@phe.gov.uk
    If you have any other solutions (not specifically COVID-19 related) that could be useful to the health and care system during this unprecedented time, you can access AHSN advice and support by visiting www.ahsninnovationexchange.co.uk.

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    Alexander Casson:

    (Current chair of the IET healthcare technologies network here.) It seems to me there are 3 broad themes here:



    1. ... We don't need 100 different open source ventilator designs, that effort could be better spent on refining and testing a few. (>1 is needed for redundancy and to have separate supply chains.) ...


    ...


    This could be a candidate for the few to be refined/tested: https://oxvent.org and https://twitter.com/OxVent

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    Thank you a few people have sent me this link about using dive kit - the example in teh link is more about the mask, while we're looking at the oxygen and its container. Nothing saying they couldn';t be combined. There are interesting points which included




    * Open to a different approach




    * Their approach to recognising it's not approved and who can use




    * Their approach to making it available and the design of the parts.

    * Recognising that emergency calls for change of protocols.


    Thanks for the feedback please keep sharing and discussing.




     


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    Susan Jones:
    Concept - Portable respiratory support for emergency situations – Can SCUBA diving kit be easily adapted to provide it?

    ...




    They have been trialling something along these lines successfully in Italy. See https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/

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