Inventors:
Bradley P. Fuhrman - Buffalo NY, US
Mark S. Dowhy - West Seneca NY, US
Assignee:
The Research Foundation of State University of New York - Amherst NY
International Classification:
F16K 31/02
US Classification:
12820421, 12820423, 12820426
Abstract:
A device, system, and method for isolating a ventilator from one or more patients in which the delivery conditions of gas delivered to an isolation device from a ventilator may drive the delivery of breathing-gas delivered to one or more patients, the breathing-gas having the same or different delivery conditions. In one embodiment, an isolation device may have a housing and a movable partition. The movable partition may be joined to the housing, The movable partition may have a patient side on a first side of the partition and an actuating side on a second side of the partition. The isolation device may include an inlet pressure regulator on the actuating side and/or an exhaust pressure regulator on the patient side. These regulators may alter the delivery conditions (including, but not limited to, pressure and volume) of breathing-gas delivered to a patient.