Equipment for Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation

Lecturer:

Karel Roubík (gar.)

Tutor:

Karel Roubík (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Biomedical Informatics

Synopsis:

Overview of the equipment, general requirements. Principles

and adverse effects of artificial lung ventilation.

Conventional and unconventional ventilatory regimens,

ventilators. Principles and equipment in anaesthesiology.

Anaesthetics. Humidification and humidifiers. Bedside

monitors. Other diagnostic and therapeutic equipment for

CCM (ITU) departments.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Meaning of „anaesthesia and critical care“.

Resuscitation. Ventilation and circulation, their control.

2. Requirements for medical equipment at departments of

anaesthesia and critical care medicine and intensive care

units.

3. Principles and adverse effects of artificial lung

ventilation.

4. Conventional ventilatory regimens, conventional

ventilators.

5. Conventional ventilatory regimens, conventional

ventilators.

6. Unconventional ventilatory regimens, high-frequency

ventilators.

7. Unconventional ventilatory regimens, high-frequency

ventilators.

8. Devices for anaesthesia.

9. Anaesthetic compounds, thermodynamic principles in

anaesthesia.

10. Anaesthetic vaporisers.

11. Inspiratory gas humidifiers.

12. Pulse oxymetry.

13. Monitors of physiological functions.

14. Other diagnostic and therapeutic devices for CCM (ITU)

departments.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Pressure and airflow measurement in critical care.

Calibration of flow sensors.

2. Measurement on conventional ventilator Veolar.

3. Measurement on high-frequency oscillatory ventilator

SensorMedics 3100B.

4. Modelling of the respiratory system.

5. Experiment for work of breathing evaluation.

6. Measurement on blood-gas analyser Compact 3.

7. Measurement on a device for anaesthesia.

Study Objective:

The aim of the subject is to give the students overview of

the basic equipment of the intensive care units or

departments of anaesthesia and critical care medicine. It

involves life-supporting devices, especially for artificial

lung ventilation, monitors of the patient's physiologic

parameters, equipment for anaesthesia, etc.

Study materials:

[1] West, J. B.: Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials. (

7th Edition). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.

[2] Davis, P. D., Kenny, G. N. C: Basic Physics and

Measurement in Anaesthesia. (5th ed.), Butterworth-

Heinemann, 2003.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: