Electronic Computer-Based Model of Combined Ventilation Using a New Medical Device

MATIAS RAMOS; ROBERTO OROFINO GIAMBASTIANI; DIEGO RIVA; MARIA FERNANDA BIANCOLINI; IGNACIO LUGONES

REVISTA CHILENA DE ANESTESIA

Sociedad de Anestesiología de Chile

Año: 2022 vol. 51 p. 404 - 413

0716-4076

The increased demand for mechanical ventilation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could generate a critical situation where patients may lose access to mechanical ventilators. Combined ventilation, in which two patients are ventilated simultaneously but independently with a single ventilator has been proposed as a life-saving bridge while waiting for new ventilators availability. New devices have emerged to facilitate this task and allow individualization of ventilatory parameters in combined ventilation. In this work we run computer-based electrical simulations of combined ventilation. We introduce an electrical model of a proposed mechanical device which is designed to individualize ventilatory parameters, and tested it under different circumstances.