Ventilator State Display for Lung Compliance Visualization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Ventilators lack intuitive visualization of lung state changes during ventilation, making timely adjustments challenging and increasing the risk of misdiagnosis, as healthcare professionals rely on experience rather than real-time data for adjusting ventilation volumes and monitoring patient conditions.

Innovation Solution

A method and device for state display during ventilation processes that determine monitoring parameters such as ventilation volume, lung compliance, and thoracic compliance, and display corresponding images to provide healthcare professionals with real-time, intuitive data for accurate determination and timely adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If traditional ventilator monitoring is used, then the device complexity is reduced, but the information visualization and diagnostic accuracy deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelung state informationVSAvoidventilator system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates visual copies (images) of the patient's lung state by processing monitoring parameters through predefined correlations. These images are not physical replicas but visual representations that copy the essential information about lung compliance, ventilation volume, and respiratory mechanics, making abstract data tangible and interpretable without adding physical complexity to the ventilator hardware

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that transforms raw monitoring parameters into visual images. This intermediary system acts as a mediator between the ventilator's sensor data and the clinician's interpretation, converting complex physiological data into intuitive visual formats that reveal lung state information without requiring the clinician to directly analyze raw numerical data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If real-time monitoring parameters are displayed, then the diagnostic accuracy is improved, but the information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveventilation state determination accuracyVSAvoidimage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms monitoring parameters (such as compliance, ventilation volume, pressure) into visual image parameters through predefined correlations. By changing the representation form from numerical parameters to visual image parameters, the system improves diagnostic accuracy while managing processing complexity through established transformation rules rather than complex real-time analysis algorithms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If intuitive image display is implemented, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveventilation state monitoring easeVSAvoidstate display system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical/cognitive process of interpreting raw numerical monitoring data with an automated image generation and display system. Instead of requiring clinicians to mentally process and interpret complex numerical parameters, the system automatically converts these parameters into intuitive visual images, improving ease of operation while consolidating the complexity into the automated processing layer

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11423535B2Method and device for state display during ventilation process
Publication Date: 2022.08.23 SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to medical instruments, and in particular to a method and device for state display during a ventilation process, a ventilator, a computer device, and a computer-readable storage medium. A method for state display during a ventilation process can include determining, by a processor, a monitoring parameter regarding a user. The method can also include displaying a first image corresponding to the monitoring parameter according to a pre-set correlation.