Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients
This paper shows the construction of a low-cost, open-source mechanical ventilator. The motivation for constructing this kind of ventilator comes from the worldwide shortage of mechanical ventilators for treating COVID-19 patients—the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking hard in some regions, especia...
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| author | Leonardo Acho Alessandro N. Vargas Gisela Pujol-Vázquez |
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| description | This paper shows the construction of a low-cost, open-source mechanical ventilator. The motivation for constructing this kind of ventilator comes from the worldwide shortage of mechanical ventilators for treating COVID-19 patients—the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking hard in some regions, especially the deprived ones. Constructing a low-cost, open-source mechanical ventilator aims to mitigate the effects of this shortage on those regions. The equipment documented here employs commercial spare parts only. This paper also shows a numerical method for monitoring the patients’ pulmonary condition. The method considers pressure measurements from the inspiratory limb and alerts clinicians in real-time whether the patient is under a healthy or unhealthy situation. Experiments carried out in the laboratory that had emulated healthy and unhealthy patients illustrate the potential benefits of the derived mechanical ventilator. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c720407b52248629fc57b872b783d272023-11-20T13:32:50ZengMDPI AGActuators2076-08252020-09-01938410.3390/act9030084Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 PatientsLeonardo Acho0Alessandro N. Vargas1Gisela Pujol-Vázquez2Department of Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 08222 Terrassa, SpainElectrotechnical Department, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, UTFPR, CEP 86300-000 Cornélio Procópio, BrazilDepartment of Mathematics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 08222 Terrassa, SpainThis paper shows the construction of a low-cost, open-source mechanical ventilator. The motivation for constructing this kind of ventilator comes from the worldwide shortage of mechanical ventilators for treating COVID-19 patients—the COVID-19 pandemic has been striking hard in some regions, especially the deprived ones. Constructing a low-cost, open-source mechanical ventilator aims to mitigate the effects of this shortage on those regions. The equipment documented here employs commercial spare parts only. This paper also shows a numerical method for monitoring the patients’ pulmonary condition. The method considers pressure measurements from the inspiratory limb and alerts clinicians in real-time whether the patient is under a healthy or unhealthy situation. Experiments carried out in the laboratory that had emulated healthy and unhealthy patients illustrate the potential benefits of the derived mechanical ventilator.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/9/3/84mechanical ventilatorlow-cost ventilatorCOVID-19pressure sensorartificial ventilationhealth monitoring |
| spellingShingle | Leonardo Acho Alessandro N. Vargas Gisela Pujol-Vázquez Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients Actuators mechanical ventilator low-cost ventilator COVID-19 pressure sensor artificial ventilation health monitoring |
| title | Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients |
| title_full | Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients |
| title_fullStr | Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients |
| title_short | Low-Cost, Open-Source Mechanical Ventilator with Pulmonary Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients |
| title_sort | low cost open source mechanical ventilator with pulmonary monitoring for covid 19 patients |
| topic | mechanical ventilator low-cost ventilator COVID-19 pressure sensor artificial ventilation health monitoring |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/9/3/84 |
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