FCV: Full respiratory control

Ventinova’s new ventilation technique FCV^®is unique in controlling the inspiration as well as the expiration phase during artificial ventilation of a patient. This is established by generating a continuous flow into the patient’s lungs followed by a continuous (negative) flow, sucking gasses out of the patient’s lungs. The continuous flow either into the lungs or out of the lungs, without ventilation pauses, results in linear increases and decreases in intratracheal pressures.

FCV^® was developed in close collaboration with professors in critical care, anesthesiology and physics.

Lower Energy

FCV^® is based on a controlled, stable flow with pressures at the tip of the endotracheal tube just high enough to generate a linear increase in intratracheal pressure during inspiration and a pressure just low enough to generate a linear decrease in intratracheal pressure during expiration. This is in contrast to Pressure Controlled Ventilation and Volume Controlled Ventilation where, especially during the passive expiratory phase, large instant intratracheal pressure drops are observed due to the collapsing thoracic wall.