Gino Bruno, Wang Zhujiang, d'Entremont Philip, Renouf Tia S, Dubrowski Adam
Emergency Medicine, Madrecor Hospital, Uberlândia, BRA.
Pre-Hospital, SIATE - Integrated Trauma and Emergency Assistance System, Uberlândia, BRA.
Cureus. 2020 Jul 11;12(7):e9134. doi: 10.7759/cureus.9134.
Recent surges in COVID-19 cases have generated an urgent global demand for ventilators. This demand has led to the development of numerous low-cost ventilation devices, but there has been less emphasis on training health professionals to use these new devices safely. The aim of this technical report is twofold: first, to describe the design and manufacturing process of the automated inflating resuscitator (AIR), a 3D-printed ventilator training device which operates on the principle of pushing a bag valve mask; second, to present a simulation scenario that can be used for training health professionals how to use this and similar, low-cost, 3D-printed ventilators in the context of ventilator shortages caused by COVID-19. To this end, the AIR was designed in an expedient manner in accordance with basic functionality established by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (United Kingdom) for provisional clinical use in light of COVID-19.
近期新冠病毒病例的激增引发了全球对呼吸机的迫切需求。这种需求促使众多低成本通气设备得以研发，但对于培训卫生专业人员安全使用这些新设备的重视程度却较低。本技术报告有两个目的：其一，描述自动充气复苏器（AIR）的设计与制造过程，这是一种基于挤压袋阀面罩原理运行的3D打印呼吸机训练设备；其二，呈现一个模拟场景，可用于培训卫生专业人员在因新冠疫情导致呼吸机短缺的情况下如何使用该设备以及类似的低成本3D打印呼吸机。为此，AIR依据英国药品和医疗产品监管局针对新冠疫情临时临床使用所确立的基本功能，以权宜之计进行了设计。
