摘要:
A respirator has a bypass gas flow and respective valves in the inspiration and expiration lines for setting the gas flow through these lines. A control unit actuates the valves so that a respiratory cycle is produced and such that the bypass gas flow is maintained during expiration. The expiration pressure is identified by a pressure sensor. When this expiration pressure falls below a prescribed value, a new inspiration phase is triggered. To improve this triggering, the patient gas flow is identified by a flow meter, and the prescribed pressure value is varied dependent on the identified patient gas flow.
摘要:
A device for displaying a parameter value has at least one row of light-emitting diodes in which each light-emitting diode has a position input, and the device has a control circuit with address outputs connected to the position inputs. Faults, such as a short-circuit can be detected more easily by an improved interconnection of the address outputs and position inputs such that two adjacent address outputs are connected to two position inputs physically separated by at least one position input.
摘要:
In conjunction with the diagnosis of conditions in and treatment of the lungs, a small amount of NO is supplied to the lungs in some cases. A gas mixture for this purpose is disclosed in which an inert, non-toxic trace gas is present in an exact concentration in relation to NO, in order to simply and safely control the amount of NO then supplied to the lungs. The amount of NO supplied can be determined by determining the concentration of the trace gas. A method and device for administering breathing gas to a patient together with the aforementioned gas mixture are also disclosed.
摘要:
In a method for supplying fresh gas in manual ventilation of a patient and in a ventilator system for practicing the method, the supply of fresh gas to a breathing bag is regulated. During inspiration, the breathing bag is squeezed, imposing an inspiration on the patient. A detector at the breathing bag senses when the patient exhales, and an identical flow of gas is fed to the system via an inspiratory valve, the flow of fresh gas is directed into the breathing bag and expired gas is prevented from entering the breathing bag. An expiratory valve simultaneously opens to conduct expired gas out of the system.
摘要:
A ventilator to be connected to the airways of a human or an animal includes several functional units, each functional unit being controlled and/or supervised by a separate microprocessor. At least one of the functional units has an analog control unit whereby the microprocessor only compensates for the coarseness in the regulating function of the analog control unit to increase the accuracy. This makes the ventilator efficient, accurate and safe.
摘要:
An apparatus, such as a ventilator, for regulating the flow-through amount of a flowing medium, such as a gas, has a valve with a variable orifice operated by a first regulating circuit with negative feedback. The regulating variable generated by the first regulating circuit controls the size of the orifice so that the difference between a desired value and an actual value for the flow-through amount os minimized, toward zero. To achieve rapid changes in the flow-through amount with a high regulating precision, at least one further regulating circuit is provided to which the regulating variable of the first regulating circuit is supplied as the desired value. The actual value for the further regulating circuit may be the measured position of the closure element for the orifice. The bandwidth and the gain can be optimized for each regulating circuit. The energy consumption can be lowered by current recovery and battery operation can be simplified, in the event of a power outage.
摘要:
Equipment for administering gaseous anesthetic to a patient has at least one anesthetic reservoir serving as the originating source for anesthetic and a ventilator to which the gas is supplied from the reservoir, the ventilator being in communication with the breathing passages of a patient. To maintain the consumption of anesthetic gas as low as possible and to also assure that the patient is constantly ventilated with fresh anesthetic gas having a defined consumption, the exhalation gas from the patient is fed back to the originating anesthetic source via at least one filter in which predetermined gas components, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide are filtered out. The exhalation gas may be returned to the originating source either directly or through a compressor.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for the re-use of anesthetic gases which are not absorbed by a patient, in inhalation anesthesia make use of an adsorption filter during exhalation, the unused anesthetic gases being subsequently desorbed from the adsorption filter during inhalation, and being reintroduced into the respiration flow to the patient. The exhaled gas is supplied through an absorber for carbon dioxide before it is re-supplied to the patient. The apparatus includes a common line for the delivery and discharge of anesthesia and respiration gases to and from a patient. An adsorption filter for adsorption and desorption of anesthetic gases is arranged in this line. To prevent the carbon dioxide from the exhalation gas of the patient, which is adsorbed in the adsorption material, from being re-supplied to the patient in the next inhalation phase, the common line between the patient and the adsorption filter is at least partially divided into an inhalation branch and an exhalation branch, with an absorber for carbon dioxide disposed in the inhalation branch, sized to match the small amount of carbon dioxide left in the reintroduced gas.
摘要:
In a method and apparatus for reducing rebreathing of gas from the dead space (i.e., the volume of used gas, which during expiration has filled the airways and is brought back to the alveus at the following inspiration), at least during the final phase of expiration, a flow of used breathing gas is artificially evacuated from the patient through a gas conduit inserted into the patient's airway, the flow rate of evacuated gas being greater than the flow rate of the expiration gas which is being exhaled by the patient at the time. A flow of breathable gas is simultaneously supplied to the patient through gas conduit inserted in the airway, which may be the same conduit as is used for evacuation or a different conduit.
摘要:
An anesthetic system has an external gas reservoir and three gas bellows arranged in the external gas reservoir to alternatingly collect or deliver breathing gas from and to a ventilator unit. In this manner a completely closed system is achieved with minimal consumption of, primarily, anesthetic. The bellows are regulated by a regulatory unit which, via a valve system, can selectively connect a source of drive gas to one or more of the containers in order to compress the gas bellows respectively contained therein. When no drive gas is supplied, each bellows passively expands.