An Android App for Training New Doctors in Mechanical Ventilation

Andrea Bombarda, Sara Millefiori, Michela Penzo, Luca Novelli, Angelo Gargantini

2024

Abstract

Mechanical ventilation is essential for critically ill patients, as recently demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience of physicians in correctly selecting ventilation parameters and values plays a crucial role in ensuring the best possible outcome. In order to aid physicians in setting up a mechanical ventilator, several brands have implemented in their products an adaptive ventilation mode called Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV). This mode automatically selects pressure and respiratory rate to require the patient the minimum breathing effort possible. However, physicians are generally skeptical about adopting this ventilation mode, as they prefer to have all parameters under their control. Nevertheless, we believe that comprehending how ASV works is paramount important, to understanding the patterns used, and possibly exploiting them while manually setting mechanical ventilators. For this reason, in this paper, we present Ventilation App, an Android app for training new physicians in mechanical ventilation. It allows the simulation of a ventilation process for a patient unable to breathe and gives feedback to the user by exploiting the same operating principles of the ASV mode. Thanks to the feedback received by a collaborating physician, we believe that our app can be useful for allowing physicians-in-training to acquire proficiency in mechanical ventilation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bombarda A., Millefiori S., Penzo M., Novelli L. and Gargantini A. (2024). An Android App for Training New Doctors in Mechanical Ventilation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 362-369. DOI: 10.5220/0012323900003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf24,
author={Andrea Bombarda and Sara Millefiori and Michela Penzo and Luca Novelli and Angelo Gargantini},
title={An Android App for Training New Doctors in Mechanical Ventilation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2024},
pages={362-369},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012323900003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - An Android App for Training New Doctors in Mechanical Ventilation
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Bombarda A.
AU - Millefiori S.
AU - Penzo M.
AU - Novelli L.
AU - Gargantini A.
PY - 2024
SP - 362
EP - 369
DO - 10.5220/0012323900003657
PB - SciTePress