Design and Manufacturing of Non-Invasive Ventilation System Connected with Remote Monitoring App for Oxygen Saturation Surveillance of COVID-19 Patients

Abstract

The struggle against COVID-19 in Peru began in early March of 2020. Because of management within the health care system, the situation has been getting worse, reaching 3.57 million infected people and 61,477 deaths to date. However, because of evolving technology, it has been possible to find strategies that may be able to provide a solution to the problem while supporting both the medical staff and patients. For these reasons, this innovative project was carried out in 2020, with the support of the IEEE URP Student Branch. As a result, a non-invasive ventilation system with remote monitoring of saturation was manufactured by students of Mechatronics Engineering, belonging to the Ricardo Palma University. This project was the winner of 2020 IEEE XXVII International Conference of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON), being the most important low-cost biomedical application in the country. The research was carried out to increase the oxygen saturation in patients with COVID-19 and decrease the number of contagions in health personnel due to constant exposure to this disease. This study presents the design of the ventilation system, where Autodesk Inventor was used to create a model of the Snorkel mask and its components, the programming was performed in Arduino IDE, and the information collected was sent to the application created through the program Kodular. In conclusion, the results achieved were favorable for the patients in the Virgen de Fatima Regional Hospital in Chachapoyas, Peru. Consequently, the next step for the project is to continue its development and donate the masks to hospitals and other institutions and aid them in combating COVID-19.