Patent ID: 8776791
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A respirator, comprising: an inspiratory valve to deliver driving gas from an external gas supply source to drive one or more gases to a patient during a medical treatment procedure; a bellows including a container therein to which a pressure is applied by the driving gas, which enters the bellows to compress the one or more gases in the container in order to discharge the one or more gases through a breathing circuit between the container and a discharge end to the patient who is undergoing the medical treatment procedure; a flow measuring component that is situated near the discharge end near the patient in the breathing circuit to detect a first flow rate of the one or more gases provided for inhalation or an exhaled gas flow rate of an exhaled gas from the patient and to provide one or more respiration parameters of the patient; a flow measuring reference component that is provided between the inspiratory valve and the container to detect a second flow rate of the driving gas, wherein