DESIGN OF AN AUTONOMOUS BILEVEL VENTILATOR FOR FULL TERM AND PRETERM NEONATES

Abstract

The team chose the design and simulation of “Autonomous Bilevel Ventilator” as its final year project. Knowledge of Fluid Mechanics, Control Systems, Measurement, Instrumentation and Biomedical is integrated to provide a solution to the existing medical problem in economically developing nations. Bubble CPAP (Continuous positive airway pressure) is treatment to provide respiratory support to full term and preterm neonates across the globe. However, the project focuses on super babies that require a dual pressure treatment (BiPAP), costing at least four figures amount. The team pursues to design an autonomous, simpler, cheaper, effective, and minimum human intervention requiring NIPPV set up that could be replaced as a cheaper solution to other autonomous bilevel machines. An intelligent oxygen blending system design is presented which could be used for any ventilator, thus saving hundreds of dollars on market-based oxygen blenders.