PVP1—The People’s Ventilator Project: A fully open, low-cost, pressure-controlled ventilator research platform compatible with adult and pediatric uses
Fig 4
PVP1 performance in a pediatric setting, compared to a Servo-I commercial ventilator.
A Volume of delivered air during a breath cycle. Blue is PVP1, Orange is Servo-I. The inset shows a magnified view of the first 0.3 s. Notice how the increase in volume is more rapid in PVP1 when compared to the commercial system. B Pressure waveforms produced by PVP1 and Servo-I. Dashed lines indicate target PEEP and PIP. C Flow in and out of the lung produced by both systems. For all three plots, we set the breath rate to 25 breaths per minute, PEEP to 5 cmH2O, PIP to 20 cmH2O, and inspiration time to 0.6 s. The pediatric lung settings were R = 25 cmH2O/L/s and C = 10 ml/cmH2O with an uncompensated residual capacity of 400 ml.
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