摘要 |
A device is provided for acoustically reproducing the respiratory function for a respirator, with a patient respiration circuit. The device has a noise generator, a volume flow sensor device, which determines the volume flow in the patient respiration circuit and generates an electric signal representing the volume flow, and a volume flow evaluating unit, which is set up to pick up the volume flow signal and to generate a control signal for the noise generator as a function of this in such a way that an acoustic signal with a loudness rising (falling) with rising (falling) volume flow is generated. To optimize the loudness of the acoustic signal, a microphone and an evaluating unit connected thereto are provided, which said evaluating unit is set up to generate at least a first measure for the instantaneous ambient noise level on the basis of the microphone signal by averaging over at least one period of time and to increase (reduce) the loudness of the acoustic signal with rising (falling) ambient noise level as a preset monotonic function of the at least one measure.
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