Design and Implementation of an Electro-Mechanical System for the Simulation of Medical Scenarios of the Respiratory System of Neonatal Patients

Abstract

Summary form only given. This document presents the design and implementation of an electro-mechanical system for the simulation of medical scenarios of the respiratory system of neonatal patients. The system implements three possible scenarios, including the application of a chest massage technique developed at the School of Medicine at Universidad Nacional. The system uses two graphical user interfaces (GUI). In the first GUI, a medical situation is created by a doctor using a series of parameters representing important clinical data. The second GUI presents the scenario to the student about to carry on his/her practice. After being presented the scenario, the student must evaluate the symptoms shown in the emulator, as well as the vital signs graphs or values shown in the interface and respond by applying a treatment to the emulator whose response indicates if the procedure was appropriate.