Maquet Critical Care Ab

Siemens Elema Ab

St. Michael's Hospital.

Pär Emtell

Magnus Hallbäck

Christer Ahlmén

Mario Loncar

Erik Cardelius

Mikael Kock

Christer Sinderby

Georgios Psaros

Jennifer Beck

Rolf Castor

Lars Wallen

Norman Comtois

Petter Videbrink

Lars Wallén

Mats Wallin

Kin-Chun Wong

Jonas Bergman

Michael Kock

A breathing apparatus has a first delivery device for adding a volume of a substance to a gas flow, the delivery device having a gas inlet and a gas outlet. A unit monitors a presence of the substance in a gas downstream the delivery device using a first sensor unit at the gas outlet that provides a first measurement value based on an acoustic property of a gas in a first conduit. A second sensor unit at the gas inlet provides a second measurement value based on an acoustic property of a gas present in the second conduit. A control unit determines the presence of the substance based on the first measurement value or based on a comparison of the first measurement value and the second measurement value.

Breathing apparatus with monitored delivery device

An anesthesia system has a unit for measuring oxygen concentration delivered to a patient, a unit for sending an alarm to an operator if the measured oxygen concentration is below a first threshold value, and a unit for automatically increasing a setting of oxygen in a fresh gas setting, so that the oxygen concentration delivered to a patient is increased, if the measured oxygen concentration is below a second threshold value. The system allows for increased safety or a lowered fresh gas flow with a maintained safety level.

Anesthesia system, a method and a computer-readable medium for actively controlling oxygen delivered to a patient

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for quantifying timing discrepancies between inspiratory effort and ventilatory assist. A trigger error is determined by comparing a start time of neural inspiration with a start time of the ventilatory assist. A cycling-off error is determined by comparing an end time of the neural inspiration with an end time of the ventilatory assist. The ventilatory assist is synchronized when the trigger error is lower than a first threshold and the cycling-off error is lower than a second threshold. The ventilatory assist may also be characterized in terms of early or late trigger and of early or late cycling-off. A trigger of a ventilator may be adjusted according to the trigger error and a cycling-off of a ventilator may be adjusted according to the cycling-off error.

Method and system for quantifying timing discrepancies between inspiratory effort and ventilatory assist

In a method for continuous and non-invasive determination of the effective lung volume, the cardiac output, and/or the carbon dioxide content of venous blood of a subject during a sequence of respiratory cycles, the inspiratory and expiratory flow, and the carbon dioxide content of at least the expiration gas are measured. In each respiratory cycle, a first parameter related to the subject's fraction of alveolar carbon dioxide, a second parameter related to the carbon dioxide content of the subject's arterial blood, and a third parameter related to the subject's carbon dioxide elimination are determined based on the measured inspiratory flow, expiratory flow and carbon dioxide content. The effective lung volume, the cardiac output, and/or the carbon dioxide content of venous blood of the subject is determined based on the correlation of the first, second and third parameters.

Method for continuous and non-invasive determination of effective lung volume and cardiac output

A gas regulating device for use in calibration of a gas analyzer has an inlet and an outlet, a valve arrangement comprising at least one valve, and valve regulator for regulating the at least one valve. The gas regulating device is intended to be connected between a calibration gas supply and a gas analyzer that is to be calibrated and the valve regulator is configured to regulate the at least one valve such that gas is allowed to flow through a gas flow path between the inlet and outlet only when a gas pressure in the gas flow path, between the at least one valve and the outlet, falls below a predetermined threshold value. The gas regulating device is used when calibrating side-stream gas analyzers in which case it reduces calibration gas consumption, prevents discharge of calibration gas into the ambient environment and prevents leakages jeopardizing correct calibration.

On-demand gas regulator for gas analyzer calibration

A breathing apparatus for ventilating the lungs of a patient with breathing gas, has: a breathing circuit configuration; a mechanical ventilation system; a manual ventilation system provided with a manual ventilation bag; a manual ventilation valve for enabling manual ventilation of breathing gas from the breathing circuit; a pressure sensor devised to detect the pressure level in the breathing circuit; an electronically controlled expiration valve () that in a mechanical ventilation mode is controlled to control the pressure level in the breathing circuit according to a first set of predetermined control rules adapted to mechanical ventilation mode requirements; said electronically controlled expiration valve in a manual ventilation mode being coupled to enable ventilation of breathing gas from the breathing circuit by means of the manual ventilation system according to a second set of predetermined control rules adapted to manual ventilation mode requirements. In a method for controlling a breathing apparatus, an electronic expiration valve is controlled during the mechanical ventilation mode as well as during the manual ventilation mode of the apparatus. The control of the expiration valve can be implemented by means of a software product for the breathing apparatus embodying programming instructions as control rules, which, when executed in the apparatus, enable control of the expiration valve during manual ventilation.

Manual ventilation with electronically controlled APL valve

In a method, ventilator and ventilator control unit for determining an end-expertorial lung volume (EELV) for a mechanically ventilated patient, a breathing gas is provided to the patient that has a first fixed N2/O2 gas composition, at least until the N2/O2 gas composition in air expired from the patient is constant. At least once, at a first predetermined point in time, the N2/O2 gas composition in the breathing gas is changed to a second fixed composition. The change in the N2/O2 gas composition exhaled by the patient for each breath is measured until a second point in time at which the level of expired Oin at least two subsequent breadths is substantially stable. The measurement is made downstream of the expiratory tube of the ventilator. The total gas volume is determined for each breath, and the EELV of the patient's lungs is determined based on the change in Olevel between the first and second points in time.

Method and apparatus for lung volume estimation

An anesthetic delivery system has a delivery unit containing a carbon dioxide retaining element and a reversible action anesthetic absorber/desorber for releasably retaining therein at least a portion of a charge of anesthetic agent. An externally accessible first internal flow section in the delivery unit directs gas through the delivery unit first through the anesthetic absorber/desorber and then through the carbon dioxide retaining element, sequentially. An externally accessible second internal flow section directs gas through the delivery unit via the anesthetic absorber/desorber and bypassing the carbon dioxide retaining element.

Anaesthetic delivery system

A device for the dosing of a dry additive gas into a breathing gas in a ventilator system, the ventilator system including a tubing system connectable by at a distal end to a patient, and has a dosing tube connectable to the tubing system for dosing to the distal end of the tubing system. The dosing tube is composed of a tube section having a moisture permeable contact surface, adapted to interact with moisture from exhaled breathing gas, so the dry additive gas is humidified before dosing to the distal end of the tubing system.

Gas dosing device

An anaesthetic delivery system has a ventilation arrangement with an inspiration gas pathway for conducting inspiration gas to a patient and an expiration gas pathway for conducting expiration gas away from the patient, and a filter element serially connected to both the inspiration and the expiration gas pathways. The filter element retains anaesthetic from expiration gas passing therethrough and releases the retained anaesthetic into inspiration gas passing therethrough. A supply of flushing gas is communicable with the filter element to flush the retained anaesthetic from the system without passing to the patient.

An apparatus front panel has a mechanical user interface in the form of a mechanically controllable regulation and setting elements on the face of the front panel. The front panel is manufactured at least in part from a transparent material in which electrical conductors and components are arranged in order to electrically connect the controllable regulation and setting elements from the face of the front panel with the electrical equipment present in the apparatus via a front panel connection. The front panel is constructed so that it can be attached at least in part to a substantially flat indicia-bearing element such as in front of a screen, in front of a display, or over a printed base or the like.

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