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是英国新冠肺炎呼吸机挑战赛的决赛选手。在大流行期间，NHS有许多在手术室提供通风的设备，由于手术被取消，这些设备处于闲置状态，但无法在病房或ICU为患者呼吸，因为他们的工作方式略有不同，他们需要不同的供应，如压缩空气，而且它们太大了。在我们的设计中，一个便携式呼吸机设备可以连接到患者需要的时间。如果该设备用于影院，它将连接到另一个模块以提供一些附加功能。对于需要手术的病人来说，这是同样的方式，当他们从睡觉的麻醉室进入剧院，再回到被唤醒的恢复状态时，他们连接到相同的设备上。这就避免了交换设备的需要，这意味着关闭/打开警报和转移设置。由于ICU中身体不适的患者要做成像或患者正在准备手术，可能会发生许多其他事情，因此可能会出错。由于这是一个生命维持系统，这些错误可能会产生严重的后果，包括死亡。这种模块化系统消除了在设备之间切换的需要，防止了这种对患者造成伤害的方法。该设备还具有能够在患者住院期间向患者学习的系统，并将信息提供给医生和护士，以改善患者的护理。由于这只是该患者的一个设备，它可以在患者不适时从整个逗留过程中学习，改进我们可以从该设备获得的信息。该系统为英国提供了在危重护理和麻醉方面处于市场领先地位的设备。英国国民健康保险制度每年在这些设备上的花费超过1.4亿GB。该设备将意味着在未来的大流行中不需要挑战呼吸机，它为英国的卫生专业人员提供了一个平台，利用设备上的数据开发系统来改善患者护理。该项目是原型和用户测试的最后阶段，以便PenMed可以将该设备带入首个人体试验，以证明其安全功能并获得监管部门的批准。

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.