Mechanical Ventilator Prototype with Self-disinfection and Ozone Therapy Function for Room Disinfection
摘要
The role of this project is to improve the current mechanical ventilation systems and to increase the success rate of the medical act by implementing new technologies in: an automated nebulization system, a mechatronic system with compensatory role of alveolar recruitment, a mechatronic system of automated disinfection, ozone therapy supplemented with a laser anticoagulation system. The area of ventilator development is probably the one where the link between physics and medicine can be seen most directly; all techniques are underpinned by basic knowledge of the behavior of gases as volume and pressure are changed. Current mechanical ventilation technology has not seen an evolution in ventilation methodology, only a change in the human communication interface by replacing buttons with touchscreens, which does not offer an improvement in the medical act; it is only a marketing strategy by manufacturers and nothing more. When analyzing ventilator models produced between 1992–2020, it was found that they do not differ at all from those produced today in terms of the benefits offered to the patient, the only change being generated by the machine-human interface using touchscreens. The main components underlying the realization of this prototype mechanical ventilator are the following: a medical gas source, valve for priming the ventilator with oxygen, digital valve with pressure regulator, patient tubing, exhalation solenoid valve, pressure sensor, flow sensor, function generator with signal amplification system with digital display, ozone generator, anticoagulated laser system, electromagnetic parasitic signal recognition system, agitated patient warning system, 532 nm laser diode and power supply.