Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 414–419
Uday1, Jayaprakash Kanive2, N K Jayashimhan3, and Nagesh M4
1 Director, Confident Electronics. Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Design Engineer, R & D Dept, Confident Electronics .Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
3 Assistant professor, Instrumentation Technology, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
4 M.Tech Student, Instrumentation Technology, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Application of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) in neonate with respiratory distress is associated with reduction of respiratory failure, reduced complications and mortality. Devices used to generate CPAP include conventional ventilators, the "bubble bottle" system and the infant flow driver. CPAP supports the breathing of preterm infants in a number of ways. It splints the upper airway and reduces obstruction and apnea, assists expansion of the lungs, and prevents alveolar collapse. But when we consider using Bubble CPAP system in Emergency Medical Services like Air Ambulance, it is extremely difficult to maintain constant back pressure created by bubbles in water bottle to the expiratory end of nasal prongs of an infant. So in order to provide constant back pressure, there is a need to replace water bottle which produce back pressure by bubble at expiratory end with a Electro-Mechanical constant pressure generating system. A Proportional solenoid valve based Electro-Magnetic Pressure Generator device is proposed, which produce constant back pressure of 5-10cmH2O Pressure and Pressure versus Voltage relationship is studied which shows pressure generated is proportional to input Voltage.
Author Keywords: bubble CPAP, Low Pressure Generation, Electro-mechanical device, Expiratory End.
Uday1, Jayaprakash Kanive2, N K Jayashimhan3, and Nagesh M4
1 Director, Confident Electronics. Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2 Design Engineer, R & D Dept, Confident Electronics .Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
3 Assistant professor, Instrumentation Technology, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
4 M.Tech Student, Instrumentation Technology, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Application of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) in neonate with respiratory distress is associated with reduction of respiratory failure, reduced complications and mortality. Devices used to generate CPAP include conventional ventilators, the "bubble bottle" system and the infant flow driver. CPAP supports the breathing of preterm infants in a number of ways. It splints the upper airway and reduces obstruction and apnea, assists expansion of the lungs, and prevents alveolar collapse. But when we consider using Bubble CPAP system in Emergency Medical Services like Air Ambulance, it is extremely difficult to maintain constant back pressure created by bubbles in water bottle to the expiratory end of nasal prongs of an infant. So in order to provide constant back pressure, there is a need to replace water bottle which produce back pressure by bubble at expiratory end with a Electro-Mechanical constant pressure generating system. A Proportional solenoid valve based Electro-Magnetic Pressure Generator device is proposed, which produce constant back pressure of 5-10cmH2O Pressure and Pressure versus Voltage relationship is studied which shows pressure generated is proportional to input Voltage.
Author Keywords: bubble CPAP, Low Pressure Generation, Electro-mechanical device, Expiratory End.
How to Cite this Article
Uday, Jayaprakash Kanive, N K Jayashimhan, and Nagesh M, “Design and Development Efficient Pressure Generating System at Expiratory End in a Bubble CPAP System,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 414–419, July 2014.
