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Искусственное легкое | Artificial lung

Artificial lung

The fact that the injection of air into the lungs can revive a person known since ancient times, but auxiliary instruments for this began to produce only in the Middle Ages. In 1530, Paracelsus was the first to use the oral duct with leather bellows designed for inflating the fire in the fireplace. After 13 years Vezaleus published a work "On the structure of the human body", which justified the use ventilation through the introduction of a tube into the trachea. And in 2013, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have created a prototype of an artificial lung. The device uses the purified air and does not require a concentrated oxygen. The device structure resembles a human lung with silicone capillaries and alveoli and works on a mechanical pump. Biopolymer tubes imitate the branching bronchi to bronchioles. In the future, it planned improvement of the device with reference to myocardial contractility. Mobile device with a high probability can replace a transport ventilator.

Dimensions of artificial lung - up to 15x15x10 centimeters, the size of his wish as close to the human body. A huge area of the gas diffusion membrane provides 3-5 times with increasing the effectiveness of Oxygen transfer.

The introduction of artificial light will help to give up a massive transport ventilators, working with explosive oxygen cylinders.

Artificial lung allows you to activate the patient, otherwise confined to a bed rest and resuscitation or transport ventilator. And with the increasing intensification of chance for recovery and psychological state.

The kit includes a portable artificial lung and pump blood.

The small dimensions of the device will allow it to replace a transport ventilator in emergency medical services. The work is based on a lightweight portable pump, enriching blood gases with air.

Some people (especially babies) do not require long-term supply of high-concentration oxygen because of its oxidizing properties.

Another non-standard analogue of ventilator used while high spinal cord injury - percutaneous electrical stimulation of the phrenic nerves ("frenikus-stimulation").

Pros classic ALV - in its universality for any pathology. On the downside - barotrauma, full remote control and the possibility of a medical error when setting up equipment. Artificial lung is developed with the aim of returning control on breathing to the patient .

WestMedGroup Company has a wide range of equipment for life support (transport ventilator cardiographs, defibrillators, medical compressors) and provides services to training and after-sales service.