VV-ECMO Teaching Simulator

ECMO Teaching Simulators

About this app

VV-ECMO Teaching Simulators is an interactive, offline educational tool for learning the physiology of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) at the bedside.

Designed for medical students, residents, ICU nurses, perfusionists and educators, it turns abstract ECMO concepts into a hands-on, simulated patient you can adjust and observe in real time. Every control you move updates the monitor, the blood gas and the circuit together — so you see the physiological consequence immediately.

TWO SIMULATORS IN ONE APP

• VV-ECMO Bedside Trainer — a Spectrum Medical-style synchronized dashboard.
Explore the extracorporeal parameter bank, post-membrane PO₂/PCO₂ computed by the Dalton + nitrogen-anchor method, oxygen delivery vs consumption (DO₂/VO₂), a live patient monitor, a blood gas analyzer, and a step-by-step clinical simulation.

• VV-ECMO Clinical Trainer — a full bedside workstation.
A Getinge-style ECMO console (RPM to flow, gas blender, oxygenator pressures), a Hamilton-C6-style pressure-control ventilator with mechanical power (VILI risk), a DO₂/VO₂ and acid–base engine, five clinical scenarios (Normal, Recirculation, Hypoxia, High Cardiac Output, Membrane Thrombosis) and a scored Challenge mode.

KEY FEATURES

• Real-time bedside monitor with live ECG, arterial line, pleth, CVP, respiration and capnography waveforms.
• ECMO console: pump speed (RPM) to flow, gas blender (FiO₂ + sweep), pre/post-oxygenator pressures and membrane ΔP.
• Steady-state physiology engine: oxygen delivery and consumption, acid–base, recirculation, membrane function.
• Blood Gas Analyzer with colour-coded abnormal values.
• Pressure-control ventilator with mechanical power and lung-protective targets.
• Challenge mode: read the patient, make a diagnosis, choose treatments, and get scored with teaching feedback.
• Works fully offline — no account, no internet, no data collection.

HOW IT HELPS LEARNING

Instead of memorising numbers, learners manipulate the circuit and the patient and immediately see the consequences — why recirculation raises pre-oxygenator saturation, how a high native cardiac output dilutes ECMO support, when a rising membrane ΔP signals oxygenator failure, and how to keep ventilation lung-protective. The single most useful habit it teaches is to read the DO₂/VO₂ ratio together with lactate, rather than reacting to saturation alone.

IMPORTANT — EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY

This application is a simplified teaching model of ECMO physiology. It is NOT a medical device and must NOT be used for clinical decisions, diagnosis, treatment, or patient care. Always rely on validated clinical judgement, institutional protocols and device manuals.

What’s new

First public release. Two interactive offline VV-ECMO teaching simulators for medical education: monitoring dashboard and console trainer with ventilator, blood gases and clinical scenarios. Educational model — not for clinical use.