STEM STATION
Engineering Connection with
Respiratory
system.
Some engineers work with doctors to find engineering solutions to
problems affecting the human body and the respiratory system. Engineers
use their knowledge of respiration, air flow, fluid flow and membranes
to devise systems to provide functions of the respiratory system to
patients when their respiratory system, or parts of it, fail. Examples
include medicines and inhalers, pulmonary function testing and screening
equipment (spirometers), and heart-lung bypass devices (artificial
lungs).