Patent ID: 8676529

Claim:
A ventilator-testing device system comprising: a ventilator system, the ventilator system including: a breath delivery system, the breath delivery system includes hardware components that control gas flow from a gas supply to a patient and control ventilator parameters, wherein the hardware components include at least one sensor, the at least one sensor monitors at least one of patient data and breath delivery system data to form monitored data; a central processing unit that generates and sends response data in response to at least one of the monitored data and operator input, wherein the response data includes commands for the breath delivery system; and a software module, wherein the software module sends simulation data based on received simulation commands to the central processing unit instead of the monitored data sent by the breath delivery system to the central processing unit and receives the response data generated by the central processing unit in response to the simulation data; and a testing device, the testing device including: a ventilator electrical connection device that electrically connects the ventilator system to the testing device; a controller on the testing device that interacts with the software module on the ventilator system and sends the simulation commands to the software module via the ventilator electrical connection device; a ventilator system reader that receives the response data from the software module generated by the ventilator system in response to the simulation commands, wherein the ventilator system generates the response data by analyzing the simulation data generated in response to the simulation commands as if the simulation data were monitored data derived from the hardware within the ventilator system; and a compare module in communication with the ventilator system reader, the compare module compares the response data with expected ventilator system response data.