Design of Piston-Driven Automated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Device with Patient Monitoring System

Abstract

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency medical procedure applied when a patient’s heart stops functioning suddenly, mainly due to cardiac arrest, drowning or electric shock. Normally, CPR is applied manually but the process is ineffective to provide adequate chest compressions to cardiac arrest patients. The main objective in this paper is to design a mechanized process of providing CPR and thus replacing the traditional manual CPR technique altogether. We designed an automated CPR device with piston-driven chest compression system and a patient monitoring system. The patient monitoring system consists of a heart rate monitor, body temperature monitor and respiratory rate monitor. The heart rate monitor is integrated with the automated CPR device. This means that when the heart rate monitor detects patient’s heart beat then the automated CPR device will not operate but if the heart rate monitor detects no heart beat then the automated CPR device will immediately provide CPR to the patient. The automated CPR along with the patient monitoring system has been tested on a CPR manikin and the results of the performance is well within the accepted CPR guidelines.