ThielViewer - an interactive visualization tool for: Do emergency ventilators deliver preset tidal volumes? - Mechanical ventilation in a human cadaver model of asynchronous cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Description
This repository contains a compiled software tool to process and review respiratory data from CSV files on Windows operating systems. It was written for a raw dataset [1] obtained in a study of simulated CPR in Thiel-embalmed cadavers [research paper - coming soon]. The tool visualizes measured flow, airway pressure and esophageal pressure. Additionally, it derives and plots volumes, as well as transpulmonary pressure, as described in the accompanying data publication [data publication - coming soon]. To improve orientation, the program can highlight segments of the study protocol within the tracings. The plots are fully interactive, can be rescaled, zoomed in, and panned back and forth.
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Steps to reproduce
Execute application and follow steps of data import. All raw data files from corresponding recordings of a cadaver have to be stored in the same folder in order to be plotted. Naming of the recording files has to be as follows, '*flow.csv', '*pressure_airway.csv', and '*pressure_esophageal.csv'. Also a corresponding Excel-File with timestamps form the laboratory notebook has to be stored in the same folder, named '*LabNotes.xlsx'. MATLAB Runtime 9.5, R2018b (MathWorks, Natick, Massachusetts, United States) has to be installed. In order to ease the installation process this repository contains an executable web-installer.