Second phase of the study
The second phase intends to evaluate the quality of SimulResp when
simulating blood gas values for real healthy or ill subjects in specific
situations. We replicated, previously described in scientific
literature, blood gas values in SimulResp. We used data from healthy men
during physical activity (10) and immersed prone at 4.7 absolute
atmosphere (ATA) (11), to evaluate SimulResp’s in spontaneously
breathing subjects and data from a previously published study performed
with ventilated pediatric intensive care subjects to evaluate
SimulResp’s predictions in mechanically ventilated subjects (12).