Design and Fabrication of Low Cost Cardiopulmonary Resuscitaion Device | A Novel Mechatronics System

TL;DR

This paper presents a low-cost, novel mechatronic CPR device that combines sterno-thoracic techniques with feedback control to effectively perform resuscitation across different age groups.

Contribution

It introduces a new, cost-effective CPR device integrating feedback control and a human-machine interface based on combined sterno-thoracic principles.

Findings

Design meets American Heart Association guidelines

Device effectively automates CPR compression rate

Feedback system enhances control accuracy

Abstract

Cardiac arrest is very common nowadays. Sudden heart attack is a condition where the heart suddenly stops beating causing a significant decrease in blood flow to the brain. The first step in medical point of view is for a patient experiencing sudden heart attack is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).Moreover, compression rate needed for CPR process is far beyond for humans to provide manually. So, there is intense need of mechanical device which can perform resuscitation. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation device is used to augment the blood flow and maintain hemodynamic cycle of human body. CPR device is proposed to meet the effective and unique blood flow mechanism, feedback system. In term of effective and unique blood flow mechanism design and fabrication of low cost cardiopulmonary resuscitation device based on principle of CPR and two concepts. It is combined Sterno-Thoracic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. The "cardiac pump" generates blood flow by squeezing blood out of the heart as the sternum is depressed. The "thoracic pump" increases intrathoracic pressure due to elastic recoil of ribs. In order to meet the American Heart Association standard guidelines a feedback system has established through closed loop control system, and integration of processing controllers. Specifically, a small HMI (Human machine interface) device has been established to control the whole mechanism which would be used for child, Adults and Senior citizens as a manual intelligence system. Henceforth, feedback system act as backbone for this device.