Mechanical Ventilators
A ventilator is a life-sustaining device that supports or replaces the spontaneous breathing of the patient. Mechanical ventilators can be understood in terms of simple physical models that have electrical analogs. These models provide the basis for designing and classifying ventilators as well as understanding ventilator-patient interactions. Mechanical ventilator design has experienced rapid evolution in the last 40 years. In many cases, ventilator capabilities outstrip both scientific evidence of efficacy and operator understanding. The knowledge gap that exists between manufacturers and end-users is due in large part to the absence of a standardized lexicon. A shared vocabulary, in turn, depends on the knowledge of rather simple analytical models of ventilator-patient interaction and control schemes.
Most education on the subject of mechanical ventilation is conducted not in the schools but by manufacturers representatives. For this reason, design engineers are in a unique position to drive change in the area of communication. The large number of people affected by SARS-CoV-2 has created an urgent demand for ventilators on a global basis, a demand that exceeds the capacity of the existing supply chains, especially in some regions where cross-border supply has been disrupted.
Here, we have provided PDF Journals and free access documents which will help the students to understand the design mechanism of mechanical ventilators. These documents would motivate the engineering students and professionals in the development of the easy to operate mechanical ventilator that can be produced quickly, at large scale, based on readily-available parts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seminar Topics on Mechanical Ventilators | Reports, and Journals
Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM): A Novel Mechanical Ventilator Designed for Mass Scale Production in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Download PDF)Design and Prototyping of a Low-cost Portable Mechanical Ventilator (Download PDF)
The Mechanical Ventilator: Past, Present, and Future (Download PDF)
Engineering Principles Applied to Mechanical Ventilation (Download PDF)
Ventilator/Respirator Hardware and Software Design Specification (Download PDF)
Basic Mechanical Ventilation (Download PDF)
Trends in mechanical ventilation: are we ventilating our patients in the best possible way? (Download PDF)
Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilator (Download PDF)
Design Principles: Mechanical Ventilators (PDF)
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