
Ventilation Principle
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3 Ventilation Principle
Evone is a mechanical medical ventilator, based on control of both inspiratory and expiratory flow
(FCV
®
). Evone enables full ventilation of a patient through a small bore lumen.
Ventilation is guided by intratracheal pressure measurements and controlled by a pressure
compensated flow controller. Evone has two different operation modes:
1
FCV
®
Mode for full ventilation in elective situations for maximally 72 hours.
To be used with all tubes.
2
Jet Mode, which is traditional (High Frequency) Jet Ventilation, for example to gently
liberate a patient from post-operative mechanical ventilation to spontaneous breathing.
To be used with Tritube with deflated cuff.
Both methods are described in more detail in 3.1 and 3.2.
3.1 FCV
®
Mode
The FCV
®
Mode, applying FCV
®
ventilation, is used for full ventilation while controlling the flow
in the whole ventilation cycle.
FCV
®
ventilation can only be applied when the cuff of the endotracheal tube is fully inflated,
sealing off the trachea from the ambient atmosphere.
The FCV
®
ventilation cycle is governed by four operator settings only, as clarified in Figure 3.1:
• Inspiration Flow
• I:E ratio
• Peak pressure
• EEP (end expiratory pressure)