From the Editor: The 2021 Product of the Year

In December, we asked Medical Design Briefs readers to cast their ballot to choose from our 12 Products of the Month the technology they felt was the most significant new introduction to the design engineering community in 2021.

Readers selected a product that could help manufacturers in their quest to build better ventilators to help fight the pandemic.

In the last two years, COVID-19 has dominated the news, and manufacturers such as Philips and Minnetronix and multiple university research groups shifted their focus to developing products to address the pandemic.

Diagnostic tests, vaccines, and ventilators took center stage. Researchers even developed an AI-based tool to help medical staff determine which COVID-19 patients would need a ventilator. With that backdrop, it is no surprise that our readers selected a product that could help manufacturers in their quest to build better ventilators to help fight the pandemic. Read on to learn more about the winner of the 2021 Medical Design Briefs’ Readers’ Choice Product of the Year.

Ventilator Evaluation Kit

An evaluation kit from Sensirion, Stafa, Switzerland, and Nicolay, Nagold, Germany, enables ventilator manufacturers to take proximal measurements of respiratory gas rates as well as ventilation pressure. A pressure sensor is physically integrated into the connector cap and on the software side in the evaluation electronics. Pressure measurements are taken and converted into an electrical signal directly at the patient’s side; the pressure signal is then sent to the ventilator electronically. The signal is transmitted through an existing cable used to measure respiratory gas flow values. The tube for tapping pressure is only a few centimeters long and runs to the cap on the flow sensor, where the pressure signal is converted into an electrical signal.

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