Smith Pulmonary Mechanics Lab
Below I have included some details of the projects I have worked on in the Smith Pulmonary Mechanics research lab. Our lab uses an experimental and computational approach to studying ventilator induced lung injury (VILI)
Ventilator used in pig studies
This is an image of a non-functional clinical ventilation system that our lab needed to collect data from a pig study.
This is an image of the previous ventilator taken apart so we could better assess the source of the error occurring. Several troubleshooting methods were taken to gain an understanding of how the system was failing. The ventilator was then reassembled and used to collect data.
Ventilator used in mouse studies
This is an image of the SCIREQ flexiVent rodent ventilator. It uses the flexiVent software along with MATLAB to administer controlled ventilation patterns, some injurous, to collect lung function data from mice. This data is used to gain a better understanding of how injurous ventilation patterns contribute to the decrease of lung function.
Olympus VS120 Scanning Microscope
This microscope is used to scan slides of lung tissue into the computer. This tissue is harvested after ventilation. These slides are then analyzed via stereology to assess and quantify injury caused by ventilation.