Protective Control

When a patient is placed in an isolation room due to contagious diseases, such as COVID-19 and Ebola, clinicians who are experts in the use of mechanical ventilators are not always in the isolation room. When the patient’s condition suddenly deteriorates, requiring a clinical expert’s immediate action to change the ventilator settings or to perform an urgent maneuver such as manual ventilation, the clinicians have to take 10-15 minutes to put on personal protection equipment (PPE) before they can enter the isolation room. While this process of donning and doffing PPE provides the best protection against coming in contact with and possibly spreading the biohazard that is present in the patient’s room, it delays the response to provide urgent care to the critically ill patient who is under mechanical ventilation. To avoid the delay in patient urgent care, clinicians may be in a hurry and may be unable to put on PPE carefully. This biohazard to clinicians was shown as a public health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

El ventilador NKV-550 permite a los médicos conectar una segunda interfaz gráfica de usuario (GUI) a la unidad principal del ventilador, además de la GUI principal. La segunda GUI se puede colocar fuera de la sala de aislamiento de un paciente contagioso que esté bajo ventilación mecánica, siempre que el paciente esté dentro de la vista del médico a través de la ventana de vidrio de la sala. Los clínicos pueden ver los monitores del ventilador y alarmas, ajustar la configuración de ventilación y la configuración de alarma, y ​​el audio pausa el sonido de la alarma, a través de esta segunda GUI.