Healthcare simulation is an innovative method to improve safety within patient’s care. Our field of interest in simulation is Mechanical Ventilation management in daily practice, for everyone in charge of ventilated patients.
The reason is that millions of patients are ventilated artificially every year in critical care unit, in operating rooms or at home. Experimental and clinical research have demonstrated that improper artificial ventilation settings are responsible for morbidity and mortality.
The goal of SimVA is to reduce it through training.
We created a tool in order to train everyone involved in mechanical ventilation and improve Patient Ventilator Interaction in various respiratory functions (normal, ARDS, COPD…) under controlled modes, pressure support or proportional assist modes. We developed many physiological monitoring tools with an educational point of view, driving and alveolar pressures, end expiratory lung volume, Diaphragm Electrical Activity, muscular inspiratory and trans pulmonary pressures, pressure volume curves…
This tool is a virtual simulator called SimVA, it is a tablet with a software and a learning program with video tutorials from basic to advance level.
Our statement is that mechanical ventilation can be tough through an easier safe unique innovative and interactive way, for everyone from basics to advance levels.
Learning
With SimVA, learn mechanical ventilation interactively everywhere. SimVA is realistic very close to respiratory device at the bedside . Lots of physiological tools are available and all ventilatory settings and protocols can be tested. SimVA was tested with residents and improve their knowledge on ventilation.
Patient Model
Patients can have various diseases from obstructive to restrictive syndrome, ARDS, obesity … Patients can be recruited or not, End Expiratory Lung Volume,Pressure Volume curve, Elastane Related Transpulmonary and alveolar pressures can be displayed. All kind of asynchronies due to patient-ventilator interaction can occur with adaptive spontaneous breathing and assist modes. This is what is new in comparison to previous simulator available today.
Modes & Tools
SimVA has volume and pressures modes with or without spontaneous breathing, Pressure Support Ventilation. All assisted modes are adaptative to patient’s effort with Pmus monitoring.
Who is behind the conception?
SimVA comes from a vision of a passionate team with a MD,PhD in intensive care and in the operating room dealing with lung transplantations everyday and a PhD in machine learning, artificial intelligency and electrical heart modelisation. Both doing scientific research. Because complex things need to be explained with simplicity they created a research team to simulate daily bedside mechanical ventilation in a software. After two years of innovations with patents, a software solution that simulates all the major modes of artificial ventilation available on commercially respiratory devices, for all major pathologies, has been created: SimVA. Interactions between patient’s respiratory mechanic (with or without spontaneous breathing) and ventilator’s settings are displayed on a screen (TV, iPad, Retroprojection). Validations of mathematical models have been published as abstracts in various ICU congresses, and a randomized study in residents assessed knowledge on mechanical ventilation with significant improvement with SimVA.
Th iOS App was entirely developed by the Start’Up Kasual Business
*SimVA is not yet available on appStore