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KMID : 1137820090300050393
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의공학회지
2009 Volume.30 No. 5 p.393 ~ p.400
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Respiratory air Flow Transducer Based on air Turbulence
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Kim Kyung-Ah
Cha Eun-Jong
Lee In-Kwang
Park Jun-Oh
Lee Su-Ok
Shin Eun-Young
Kim Yun-Ki
Kim Kyung-Cheon
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Abstract
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The present study developed a new technique with no physical object on the flow stream but enabling the air flow measurement and easily incorporated with the devices for cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) procedure. A turbulence chamber was formed in the middle of the respiratory tube by locally enlarging the cross-sectional area where the flow related turbulence was generated inducing energy loss which was in turn converted into pressure difference. The turbulence chamber was simply an empty enlarged air space, thus no physical object existed on the flow stream, but still the flow rate could be evaluated. Computer simulation demonstrated stable turbulence formation big enough to measure. Experiment was followed on the proto-type transducer, the results of which were within error compared to the simulation data. Both inspiratory and expiratory flows were obtained with symmetric measurement characteristics. Quadratic curve fitting provided excellent calibration formula with a correlation coefficient>0.999(P<0.0001) and the mean relative error<1%. The present results can be usefully applied to accurately monitor the air flow rate during CPR.
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KEYWORD
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Respiratory air flow rate transducer, Turbulence chamber
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