GlasVent—The Rapidly Deployable Emergency Ventilator,Global Challenges

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GlasVent—The Rapidly Deployable Emergency Ventilator
Global Challenges ( IF 4.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-06 , DOI: 10.1002/gch2.202000046
Adamos Christou ₁ , Markellos Ntagios ₁ , Andrew Hart _{2,

3} , Ravinder Dahiya ₁

Affiliation

As a result of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak, a surge is witnessed in the demand for mechanical ventilators needed for treating affected patients. With the rapidly virus spreading around the globe, the shortage of ventilators becomes a global challenge and numerus efforts are followed. While industry mobilizes toward producing medical grade equipment, a number of low‐cost and less complex emergency ventilators have been developed, mainly through academic and open‐source channels, with a hope to meet any temporary needs gap until medical grade ventilator provision becomes sufficient. Herein, the design and implementation of one such emergency ventilator called GlasVent is presented, which an automated version of manual resuscitator device, commonly known as big valve mask or artificial manual breathing unit bag and widely used prior to initiating the mechanical ventilation. GlasVent uses 3D printed mechanical parts, widely available materials and off‐the‐shelf electronic and sensing devices which can be fast assembled. Furthermore, it requires minimal training and can be operated manually by hands or legs, thus meeting the emergency requirements even in the low‐resource settings or regions with less developed healthcare systems. Post‐COVID‐19, such ventilators can potentially find use in clinical care of a wider variety of patients with injury, pulmonary noncommunicable diseases, and severe asthma etc.

中文翻译：

GlasVent — 可快速部署的紧急呼吸机

由于新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的爆发，治疗受影响患者所需的机械呼吸机的需求激增。随着病毒在全球迅速传播，呼吸机短缺成为全球性挑战，人们纷纷做出努力。在业界动员生产医疗级设备的同时，主要通过学术和开源渠道开发了一些低成本且不太复杂的紧急呼吸机，希望在医疗级呼吸机供应充足之前满足任何临时需求缺口。本文介绍了一种名为 GlasVent 的紧急呼吸机的设计和实现，它是手动复苏装置的自动化版本，通常称为大阀面罩或人工手动呼吸装置袋，在启动机械通气之前广泛使用。 GlasVent 使用 3D 打印机械零件、广泛使用的材料以及可快速组装的现成电子和传感设备。此外，它只需要很少的培训，可以用手或腿手动操作，因此即使在资源匮乏的地区或医疗系统欠发达的地区也能满足紧急需求。在 COVID-19 之后，此类呼吸机有可能用于更广泛的损伤、肺部非传染性疾病和严重哮喘等患者的临床护理。

更新日期：2020-09-06

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