Resuscitation management system based on magnetic sensors for manual resuscitators

A resuscitation management system for a manual resuscitator, the system comprising:

• a sensible element configured to be mounted on a first side of an outer surface of a bag of the manual resuscitator, the sensible element comprising a conductive material;
• a sensing element configured to be mounted on a second side of the outer surface of the bag, the sensing element comprising an inductive displacement sensor configured to generate a magnetic field with a certain frequency within a read range, the sensing element further configured to generate an output voltage responsive to detection of a temporal disturbance in the generated magnetic field, the temporal disturbance occurring responsive to the sensible element being within the read range, the sensing element comprising a magnetometer;
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• a processing unit coupled to the sensing element, the processing unit comprising:
• at least one processor;
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• at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing a correlation between each output voltage generated by the sensible element at a given instance with a distance between the sensing element and the sensible element at the given instance, the at least one memory further storing executable instructions to urge the at least one processor to:
• receive a plurality of output voltages from the sensing element;
• calculate a distance between the sensing element and the sensible element for each received output voltage of the plurality of output voltages utilizing the stored correlation;
• associate each output voltage of the plurality of the output voltages with a ventilation delivered to a patient responsive to the calculated distance being equal to or less than a predetermined threshold;
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• calculate a breathing rate by counting the delivered ventilations during a time interval.