Dragerwerk Aktiengesellschaft

Hellige Gmbh

Horst Frankenberger

Erik Schwanbom

Marcel Baum

Carl F Wallroth

Georg J Ullrich

Wolfgang Franz

Jorg Bayerlein

Michael Waschmann

Peter Lemburg

Frank Simon

Eberhard Bohn

Anton Obermayer

Dieter Heller

The invention is directed to a fault triggering component for life-sustaining systems such as ventilating apparatus and anesthesia apparatus. The fault triggering unit is adapted so as to be connectable to or exchangeable with one of the standard plug-in components of the system. The fault triggering unit includes at least one remote-controllable drive member and this drive member is connected to a movable triggering component which triggers at least one fault with its movement. A circuit arrangement for assembling a training program for a ventilating apparatus having a lung simulator is also disclosed.

Ventilating training apparatus with fault simulation

With closed respiratory systems, the patient's respiratory tract is tightly connected to a closed volume to which breathing gas is supplied only in the amount taken in by the patient. To this end, the breathing gas supply must be controlled. The controlled variable is either the pressure in the ventilating circuit, or the concentration of oxygen or the anesthetic gas in the breathing gas. A dropping pressure indicates either an increased consumption or a leak. To avoid insufficient or excessive loading of the patient, it is very important to be able to distinguish consumption from a leak. The inventive device makes this distinction possible. The breathing gas amounts are adjusted in the ventilating circuit at preset different pressures and are compared with each other, and the leak portion is computed therefrom.

Device for supplying breathing gas into a closed ventilating circuit of

A respirator device particularly for use in association with a tube insertable into a person's trachea comprises a trachea tube having an inflatable cuff which seals the tube with the person's trachea. A line for ventilating gas extends into the tube and terminates in a jet nozzle directed to the trachea. The opposite end of the tube is provided with a connection to atmosphere which also makes it possible to provide a controlled vacuum pressure at this end particularly in the expiration phase. Control is effected between the ventilating gas and the vacuum for regulating the respiration. With the inventive method the vacuum is provided at the outer end of the trachea tube particularly during respiration and it is effected by directing a vacuum pressure gas supply connection through a Venturi connection to the tube which produces the vacuum in the tube and communicates the tube to atmosphere. This gas connection is controlled along with a ventilating pressure gas connection to provide the desired respiration.

Respirator apparatus and method of operation thereof

A transport container particularly for use as an incubator comprises a housing having an interior substantially vertical wall and a substantially horizontal wall with a support structure mounted in the housing spaced from the vertical wall and the horizontal wall so as to define a convection passage below and on one side of the support. The convection passage contains means for suspending one or more heating elements in the passage. The heating elements may comprise of preheatable plates, water containers, etc. or each storage material, for example salts or other substances which change in structure when passing through a critical point so as to provide a latent heat for aiding and heating the area overlying the support structure.

Transport incubator

A tracheal tube comprises a hollow tube body having an open tube end and an inflatable sealing cuff disposed around the tube adjacent the tube end. At least one small diameter tube is associated with the hollow tube and it has a nozzle portion terminating in a discharge jet adjacent the open tube end for use in jet ventilation at high frequencies above 600 cycles per minute. The small diameter tube has a diameter of from between 0.4 to 0.05 .times. the inside diameter of the tube shaft and the outlet opening of the jet nozzle is arranged relative to the tube end either inside or outside the tube diameter at such a spacing that it is within .+-.5.times. the inside diameter of the tube body.

Tracheal tube

A measuring sensor head for determining the contents of gases in liquids, particularly for transcutaneous determination of oxygen in blood, as well as a method of manufacturing such sensor head are disclosed. In accordance with the invention, the gas-permeable membrane which covers the front face of the sensor head and which, during use, is applied to the human skin, is preshaped to assume a cap-shaped configuration. This eliminates previously occurring measuring errors due to uncontrollable stresses causing thickness variations generated in conventional membranes and, moreover, provides for an improved sealing effect between the housing of the measuring head and the membrane.

Measuring sensor head for determining the contents of gases in liquids

A method of continuously measuring the CO.sub.2 content in breathing gases during inspiration and exhalation phases of breathing using a luminous source to pass infrared light rays through an interference filter accorded to CO.sub.2 and a conduit of the gas to a photodetector, comprises passing the breathing gas developed during the breathing phases through the conduit to influence the photodetector to transmit a measured value signal in accordance with the CO.sub.2 content, directing the signal to a breathing air phase recognition unit, storing the maxima and the minima of the measured value signals in each breathing phase in a maximum storage and a minimum storage, dividing the stored values under the control of the recognition unit and directing the values to a computation unit to indicate the logarithm of the values so as to give an indication of the variations of the CO.sub.2 content. The indicated value is then directed to an indicating unit to show the value of the CO.sub.2. The apparatus includes a tubular cell or conduit comprising a measuring cell which is arranged centrally between a luminous source and an interference filter accorded to CO.sub.2 on one side and a photodetector on the other side thereof. A measuring cell tube is mounted on a stable support which is adapted to be warmed up during operation. The system includes a light modulator between the luminous source and the interference filter and a lens system for directing the light through the measuring cell and through the photodetector.

Apparatus for continuously measuring the CO.sub.2 content in breathing

A method of continuously measuring the CO.sub.2 content in breathing gases during inspiration and exhalation phases of breathing using a luminous source to pass infrared light rays through an interference filter accorded to CO.sub.2 and a conduit of the gas to a photodetector, comprises passing the breathing gas developed during the breathing phases through the conduit to influence the photodetector to transmit a measured value signal in accordance with the CO.sub.2 content, directing the signal to a breathing air phase recognition unit, storing the maxima and the minima of the measured value signals in each breathing phase in a maximum storage and a minimum storage, dividing the stored values under the control of the recognition unit and directing the values to a computation unit to indicate the logarithm of the values so as to give an indication of the variations of the CO.sub.2 content. The indicated value is then directed to an indicating unit to show the value of the CO.sub.2.

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Bad Schwartau, Germany

Horst Frankenberger