Humidification breathing apparatus control
AssigneeFisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
InventorsAlastair Edwin MCAULEY, Igor Olegovich YATSEVICH, Nimansha BUDHIRAJA, Dongxue YOU
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Abstract
A humidification breathing apparatus for generating and delivering humidified air to a patient at a desired humidity proximate the patient, the apparatus comprising an air flow path and a controller for controlling operation of the humidification breathing apparatus, wherein the controller is configured to operate the humidification breathing apparatus to control humidity at a point in the flow path to achieve the desired delivered humidity proximate the patient based on the patient exhaled humidity and flow.
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1-33. (canceled)
A humidification breathing apparatus for generating and delivering humidified air to a patient at a desired temperature proximate the patient, the humidification breathing apparatus comprising:
- an air flow path, and
- a controller which controls operation of the humidification breathing apparatus,
- wherein the controller operates the humidification breathing apparatus to control the temperature at a target point in the flow path to a target temperature to achieve the desired delivered temperature at a downstream patient delivery point in the flow path proximate the patient, wherein the target temperature is determined based on mask information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.