Robotics Center Ventilator

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Robotics Center Ventilator is an automatic machine designed to provide all or part of the work the body must do to move oxygen into and carbon-dioxide out of the lungs of the patient. The act of moving air into and out of the lungs is called breathing, or, more formally, ventilation.

The simplest mechanical device we could devise to assist a person’s breathing would be a hand-driven, syringe-type pump that is fitted to the person’s mouth and nose using a mask. A variation of this is the self-inflating, elastic resuscitation bag. Both of these require one-way valve arrangements to cause air to flow from the device into the lungs when the device is compressed, and out from the lungs to the atmosphere as the device is expanded. These arrangements are not automatic, requiring an operator to supply the energy to push the gas into the lungs through the mouth and nose. Thus, such devices are not considered mechanical ventilators.

Automating the ventilator so that continual operator intervention is not needed for safe, desired operation requires four basic components:

A source of input energy to drive the device;

A way of separating nitrogen from air and supplying only oxygen to the patient.

A means of converting input energy into output energy in the form of pressure and flow to regulate the timing and size of breaths; and

A means of monitoring the output performance of the device and the condition of the patient.

Our ventilator is carefully designed with input from medical professionals. We studied closely Boyl'es machine and followed exactly the same principle to develop our machine which is ready.