PVP1–The People’s Ventilator Project: A fully open, low-cost, pressure-controlled ventilator

We present a fully open ventilator platform–The People’s Ventilator: PVP1– with complete documentation and detailed build instructions, and a DIY cost of $1,300 USD. Here, we validate PVP1 against key performance criteria specified in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Emergency Use Authorization for Ventilators. Notably, PVP1 performs well over a wide range of test conditions and has been demonstrated to perform stably for a minimum of 72,000 breath cycles over three days with a mechanical test lung. As an open project, PVP1 can enable both future educational, academic, and clinical developments in the ventilator space. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement This work was supported by Princeton University which provided funding and facilities. JLS is supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship No. 1309047. ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: No IRB needed for this study. All necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable. Yes All necessary data are available at [www.peoplesvent.org][1] [1]: http://www.peoplesvent.org