The work awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
June 17, 2016 - The student is enrolled in the first year of the master's degree course in Biomedical Engineering UCBM awarded by the Medical Measurements and Applications 2016 conference which was held this year in Benevento. Chiara The team won one student travel grants within the scientific event organized by the Instrumentation & Measurements Society of the IEEE, the largest world organization dedicated to advanced technology for the well-being of humanity.
An award won thanks to a paper which starts from the thesis developed at the end of the three-year degree course, project which Chiara he continued to work with passion and dedication even after the discussion. At the center of the study, humidifiers used in case of artificial ventilation, applied when the patient is unable to breathe independently. The humidifier is placed between the patient and the ventilator to compensate for the damage caused by the dry gases emitted by the support.
Dr. Losquadro has studied how a non-optimal functioning of the humidifier can even cause damage to the entire apparatus, up to compromising lung function. You also explained how excessive humidification can cause occlusion of the airway circuit.
In the work conducted by the student and supervised by the engineers Emiliano Schena, Paola Saccomandi e Carlo Massaroni, the performance of a hot plate humidifier was analyzed with a quantitative method. The results obtained highlight the need to improve the control strategy of humidifiers on the market and also open the way to new solutions to optimize the performance of these devices. Discoveries that could have a significant clinical impact on patient management.
