May 11, 2020 - Weekly Recap for COSMIC (formerly UBC SOS Event) - Patrick and Philip

Philip and Patrick are co-leading team strategy for COSMIC (www.cosmicmedical.ca - formerly UBC SOS eVent). They record and share weekly videos with the COSMIC group to highlight some of our big wins from last week and things we are working on this coming week.

You can also read a summary of this video via the weekly summary document
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L...) or below:

Our name is collective open-source medical supplies for COVID (COSMIC). We were formerly UBC SOS eVent. We are all volunteers committed to -
Our mission to create abundant access to medical equipment in BC and around the world through open source design solutions.

Our promise to all of our project members is that your time will ultimately be transformed into designs of medical devices and products that anyone and everyone in the world will have access to and can benefit from. We are doing this because we believe this will help in the global fight against COVID.

Highlights from last week (May 3rd - May 11th):
Project Snorkel Mask and Bubble Helmet are collaborating with another open-source design team in Montreal, to compare their solutions and incorporate the best of both designs into a new SUPER-design. Reaction Dynamics, a satellite launch company, has been working on a similar patient snorkel mask design and has sent their mask to use for this side-by-side bench testing. Bubble helmet is getting ready to submit a CIHR grant in collaboration with Dr. Sinha and team in Montreal.

Project bag-valve-mask (BVM) demonstrated a fully functional ApolloBVM Rice University ventilator prototype. They achieved a major milestone by reproducing this design. Developed expertise to scale production, but the clinical situation on ground does not require producing these devices. They will publish a website. To wrap the documentation up, they are summarizing the changes made to the open-source project that they were modifying for our context.

Media -- COSMIC has been front and centre in local Vancouver news, with front-page coverage on 5 media outlets
Front page of Vancouver Sun online article Arts Club
Vancouver Sun YouTube interview Arts Club
Burnaby Now
Georgia Straight
DailyHive
CityTV

Lots of previous media as well:
Initial GlobalBC intro story
UBC Dean of Applied Sciences shoutout
SingTao newspaper and epaper update
gVent video https://vimeo.com/409015982
roche award announcement
PhoenixTV    / vlrcrj0uoa  
singtao update
vpc mention
DUS mention

Thanks to Gabriel Galand for coming back on board for Arts Club filming -- and filming will be happening from May 18th-25th, which brings us to upcoming plans!

In addition to the exciting Arts Club initiatives, we have lots of other plans on the go.
Plans for next week (May 10th - May 18th):
We need everyone to update the COSMIC Organizational Chart
We now how have weekly project and team status update documents - these are updated on a weekly basis by our project and team leaders:
Weekly Project Status Updates
Weekly Team Status Updates
Here are a few of the highlights from our teams:
Team Regulatory and Legal
Working on US FDA EUA Pathway and is working with individual projects to make that happen and they are planning to make their first submission to Health Canada this coming week
Team Legal has written a draft liability memo regarding the liability that designers and publishers of open-source hardware designers hold (thank you to Rocky for this)
Team Clinical
Publishing literature reviews accessing clinical utility of NIPPV (snorkel mask and bubble helmet) and ventilators (gVent) on website.
Working with Chris Nguan to publish academic articles about our projects