Modular Ventilation and Anaesthesia System for Improved Outcomes in Critical Care

该项目支持模块化系统的最终开发阶段，该系统在一个设备中为所有医院区域提供机械呼吸。PenMed是英国呼吸机挑战赛的决赛选手。在大流行期间，NHS有许多设备可以在手术室提供通风，这些设备由于手术被取消而闲置，但不能用于病房或ICU为患者呼吸，因为它们的工作方式略有不同，它们需要不同的供应，而这些供应是不可用的，例如压缩空气，而且它们太大了。一个便携式呼吸机设备保持连接到病人，只要他们需要它。如果该设备是在手术室使用，它连接到另一个模块，以提供一些额外的功能。这对于需要手术的病人来说也是一样的，他们从麻醉室进入睡眠，进入手术室，再回到恢复室，他们被唤醒时，他们都连接到同一个设备上，这就不需要交换设备，这意味着关闭/打开警报和传输设置。由于许多其他的事情可能会发生与一个不适的病人在重症监护室将有成像做或病人正在准备手术，错误可以作出。由于这是一个生命支持系统，这些错误可能会造成严重后果，包括死亡。这种模块化系统消除了在设备之间切换的需要，并防止这种方法对患者造成伤害。该设备还具有能够在患者住院期间从患者那里学习并将信息呈现给医生和护士以改善患者护理的系统。由于它只是针对患者的一种设备，因此它可以在患者不适的整个住院期间学习，从而改善我们可以从设备中获得的信息。该系统为英国提供了市场领先的重症监护和麻醉设备。NHS每年在这些设备上花费超过1.4亿英镑。该设备将意味着在未来的流行病中不需要呼吸机挑战，它为英国的卫生专业人员提供了一个平台，以开发使用设备上的数据改善患者护理的系统。该项目是原型设计和用户测试的最后阶段，以便PenMed可以将该设备用于首次人体研究，以证明其安全功能并获得监管机构的批准。

This project supports the final development stages of a modular system that provides mechanical breathing in all hospital areas in one device. PenMed was a finalist in the UK ventilator challenge for COVID-19\. During the pandemic, the NHS had many devices that provided ventilation in operating theatres that were idle as operations were cancelled but could not be used on the wards or ICU to breathe for patients as the way they worked was subtly different, they needed different supplies which weren't available such as compressed air, and they were too big.In our design, one portable ventilator device stays connected to a patient for as long as they need it. If the device is used in theatre, it connects to another module to provide some additional functions. This works the same for a patient requiring surgery, they are connected to the same device as they move from the anaesthetic room where they go to sleep, into theatre and back into recovery where they are woken up.This prevents the need to swap devices, which means switching alarms off/on and transferring settings. As a lot of other things may be happening with an unwell patient in ICU going to have imaging done or a patient being prepared for surgery, mistakes can be made. As this is a life-support system, these mistakes can have serious consequences, including death. This modular system removes the need to switch between devices and prevents this method of harm to patients.This device also has systems that are able to learn from the patient during their stay in hospital and present the information to the doctors and nurses to improve patient care. As it is just one device for that patient, it can learn from the whole episode of stay while the patient is unwell, improving the information that we can get from the device.This system provides the UK with a market-leading device in critical care and anaesthesia. The NHS spends over £140m per year on these devices. This device would mean that no ventilator challenge would be needed in future pandemics and it provides a platform for UK-based health professionals to develop systems that improve patient care using the data on the device.This project is the final stage in prototyping and user testing so that PenMed can take the device into first-in-human studies to demonstrate its safe function and gain regulatory approval.