FLUTTER DEVICE FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASES

B.Sarika, M.Shanmugapriya, V.Suganya, A.Velmurugan

Abstract: Respiratory diseases are now becoming as a life threatening one. Respiratory Tract is a pathway, which includes trachea, bronchi. The abnormalities or dysfunction in respiratory system may result in diseases such as bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, dyspnea, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma, emphysema etc. Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disorder which is due to the abnormality in cystic fibrosis trans membrane receptor protein and it is responsible for maintaining the nature of the mucus in airway and around the pleural cavity . Bronchiectasis is an abnormality in the bronchi pathway (i.e. the airways become dilate). During this disease, hair-like projections called cilia will be enlarged and it will be unable to sweep away the mucus. Dyspnea is a condition in which the people experiencing uncomfortable changes in air pathway. In the above -mentioned diseases the common abnormality is mucus secretions stay thick. In order to overcome that Flutter device is used. Flutter is a mucus clearance device, which helps to coughed it out by performing breathing exercises. It is designed by using creo parametric 2.0 software in CAD. The 3D model of the flutter is done by loading corresponding CAD file and it is loaded to the rapid prototyping machine, which prints the 3D model of the flutter

Keywords: Cystic Fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator Protein, Bronchiectasis, Dyspnea, 3D Printing, Creo Parametric 2.0 etc

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0503012