Patent ID: 8418692

Claim:
A ventilation system comprising: a main housing; a gas delivery system in the main housing; a ventilation control system in the main housing that controls the gas delivery system and monitors one or more of a patient physiological parameter, operational parameters of the ventilation system and user-settable parameters; a primary display controller that generates a graphical user interface and that receives user inputs through the graphical user interface and delivers commands to the ventilation control system based on the inputs; a primary display housing removably attached to the main housing; a primary display in the primary display housing that presents the graphical user interface; and a system status display incorporated into the main housing that receives status data directly from the ventilation control system and displays the status data, and wherein when the ventilation system is ventilating a patient, the ventilation control system causes the system status display to display a first set of status data when the primary display housing is attached and a second set of status data different from the first set of status data when the primary display housing is removed.