Pressure-Sensing Neonatal Ventilation Mask

Abstract

Guided by the Stirling Research Group at the University of Michigan, Team 25 aims to design a training device quantifying the pressure applied by clinicians during neonatal positive pressure ventilation (PPV). PPV is a crucial procedure in neonatal resuscitation performed on newborns experiencing breathing difficulties immediately after birth wherein a clinician delivers a controlled oxygen-rich flow into a newborn’s lungs through a ventilation mask. The motivation of this design is to improve PPV training for clinicians, thereby increasing the consistency of safe pressure application as insufficient pressure could lead to mask leaks and excessive pressure could obstruct the newborn’s airways.