INTELLIGENT ASSISTED/CONTROLLED MECHANICAL VENTILATION (A/C MV) AUTOMATION SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION DEVICE

Abstract

- The article presented a supervisory command and control entity designated for a mechanical ventilator, that allows the medical personnel to monitor and control the main device used in an automated process. The entity is in fact an automation system, that is used for assisted/controlled mechanical ventilation of critically ill patients, for collecting information from multiple intelligent sensors, for supervising the process and then integrates this information to make it available for the medical personnel. Starting from this technology formulated concept, the article aims to develop and test a laboratory experimental demonstrator Assisted/Controlled Mechanical Ventilation (A/C MV) automation system for a mechanical ventilator that hosts a programmed human machine interface (HMI) application and a central processing unit which will be acting as the brain equipped with a developed control algorithm .