GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE FOR A PATIENT VENTILATOR

摘要

The ventilator system (10) for ventilating a patient (1) comprises a respirator (22) for ventilating the patient (1), a programmable processor (60) responsive to selected ventilation parameters for controlling the respirator (22) to ventilate the patient (1), a memory (35) connected to the processor (30) for storing a plurality of ventilation parameters, a display (50) for displaying the plurality of ventilation parameters, including ventilation parameters currently used by the processor (30) to control the respirator (22) and a plurality of proposed ventilation parameters, input means (25) cooperating with the memory (35) and the display (50) for selecting one of the proposed ventilation parameters from the plurality of proposed ventilation parameters and for assigning values to the selected proposed ventilation parameter, the selected value being displayed by the display (50), wherein one, or more than one of the proposed ventilator parameters may be selected in any order and values assigned to one, or more than one of the proposed ventilator parameters while the processor (30) controls the ventilator (22) using the currently used values of the ventilation parameters, and wherein a user accepts the one or more assigned values of the proposed ventilator parameters by pressing a button and the processor (30) stores the assigned proposed ventilator values in the memory (35), and controls the ventilator (22) using the newly stored values.