Ventlas

Don't memorize ventilator waveforms. Watch them being made.

Ventlas is an educational simulator that computes pressure, flow and volume waveforms from resistance and compliance using a single-compartment lung model. Nothing is hand-drawn: every trace is integrated from the equations, breath by breath. Because residual volume carries over between breaths, auto-PEEP emerges from the arithmetic rather than being painted in.

[ ATLAS - 17 conditions ]

Normal lung / ARDS / COPD and asthma / Cardiogenic pulmonary edema / Obesity and raised abdominal pressure / Atelectasis / Pulmonary fibrosis
Mucus plug / Kinked tube / Tension pneumothorax / Endobronchial intubation / Circuit leak
Double triggering / Flow starvation / Ineffective triggering / Auto-triggering / Reverse triggering

Each condition is explained in four panels - mechanism, mechanics, waveform, clinical - with a severity slider in real units. What matters is what separates conditions that look alike:
- Atelectasis vs fibrosis: does compliance improve when you raise PEEP?
- Kinked tube vs mucus plug: does pressure fall in proportion to flow, or with its square?
- Auto-triggering vs reverse triggering: does the negative deflection come before the breath, after it, or not at all?

[ THREE MODES ]

Volume control / Pressure control / Pressure support
The same problem looks different in each mode, and that is the teaching point. Volume control shows it as rising pressure; pressure control shows it as falling volume. In pressure support the breath ends on flow rather than time, so high resistance stretches inspiration out.

[ SIMULATOR - the patient answers back ]

Work the ventilator and the patient changes over minutes.
Saturation, end-tidal CO2, heart rate and mean arterial pressure are monitored continuously.
An arterial blood gas takes two minutes to come back, and the result is the patient as they were when you drew it - not as they are now.
Four scenarios with targets: ARDS, COPD, atelectasis, circuit leak.
Every setting you change is logged with the vital signs of that moment, and the whole session can be exported at the end.

[ MEASUREMENTS THAT REFUSE ]

No plateau pressure without an inspiratory hold.
No auto-PEEP without an expiratory hold.
No compliance when patient effort or a leak makes it meaningless.
Knowing why a number cannot be measured matters as much as the number.

Korean and English. Works entirely offline.
No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, no data collected.

This is a medical education simulator. It is not a medical device and must not be used for diagnosis or to set a real ventilator. Every value shown is computed from a mathematical model and is not a recording from a real patient.