The Quantum Ventilation System

The second-generation Quantum Ventilation System is a world first solution designed to manage extracorporeal patient ventilation including the blending of gases, the management of vacuum, integrated patient safety systems, perfusion diagnostics, delivered anaesthesia gas concentration and a calculated MAC value.

The ultra-compact Quantum Ventilation System employs the very latest gas blending technologies to provide the user with Atmospheric or Hypobaric patient ventilation capability.

In Atmospheric mode, the Quantum Ventilation System delivers precision regulated FiO₂, CO₂ with a sweep flow range from 0.025 to 10 L/m when flowing a single gas e.g. O2 and up to a maximum flow rate of 20 L/m when modulating the delivery of two gases. e.g. 60% FiO₂

In Hypobaric mode, the Quantum Ventilation System regulates the delivery of two channels of O₂ to Spectrum Medical’s new Ventilator technology with a sweep flow range of 0.025 to 10L/m per channel.

To ensure system performance and safety the ventilation system has a fully integrated secondary monitoring system that continuously compares actual measured values with user defined set-points and activates an alarm when the discrepancy between the two systems is greater than 10%.

In ‘Patient Ventilation Mode’ the Quantum Ventilation System, combined with its patented PaO₂ and PaCO₂ measurement technologies, provides a decision support capability and an auto regulation function for the modulation of gas flows and gas concentrations when setting PaO₂ and PaCO₂ target values. The Quantum Ventilation System provides precision modulation and monitoring of WAG and VAVD.

To further improve patient safety the Quantum Ventilation System provides real-time monitoring of the following gas-ventilation parameters:

• Incoming Supply Pressures of Air, O₂, CO₂, & Vacuum Channels
• O₂ and CO₂ Gas Concentrations & Pressures to the Oxygenator
• Overall Gas Flow to the oxygenator (SWEEP)
• CO₂ concentrations measured from the WAG line

Integrated within the Quantum Ventilation System is Spectrum Medical’s full range of Non-Invasive Diagnostic and Calculated Physiologic Measurements. To further improve usability, the system includes the measurement of Flow (including bubble detection), Pressure, Temperature and Reservoir Level Management.

The second-generation Ventilation System has been further modified to allow the hospital to connect to two independent vacuum sources for both WAG and VAVD. Furthermore, and to reduce routine servicing requirements, the system now includes a new “long-life” O₂ measuring technology