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Article: Thread of inspiration: embedded IDE helps overcome obstacles in monitor design for mobile ventilator. (Application Ideas).
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- Medical Equipment Designer
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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An embedded integrated development environment based on the ThreadX real-time operating system helped engineers at Pulmonetic Systems Inc, Colton, California, overcome major obstacles in the design of a monitor for their mobile ventilator. The size of a laptop computer, Pulmonetic LTV series ventilators provide maximum mobility to patients that need breathing assistance, helping them lead a more active lifestyle. A color liquid crystal diode display displays numerical values of the most important ventilator parameters. The monitor was intended to display far more detailed information, including real-time pressure, flow and volume waveforms, ventilator setting and monitored ...
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