At the Department of Diseases of Large Animals with a Clinic of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Warsaw, tests are being carried out concerning the safety of using the Ventil device, developed by a team under prof. M. Darowski at the M. Nałęcz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. This device allows for independent ventilation of both lungs of a patient requiring intensive care.Due to the limitations of the medical system and in a crisis situation, this device can be used to simultaneously ventilate two patients. This is particularly important in the face of the current pandemic.

The subject of the tests is to assess the safety and effectiveness of simultaneous ventilation of two animals using one ventilator and the Ventil device. The tests are conducted on pigs under general anaesthetic, as well as to determine the penetration of pathogens between the air paths of the device, and consequently between the respiratory systems of the animals.

The tests are the responsibility of a team of WULS scientists led by prof. Zdzisław Gajewski and prof. Romuald Zabielski, and the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the supervision of prof. Adam Liebert and prof. Piotr Ładyżyński. The Clinic of Diseases of Large Animals of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, headed by professor Zdzisław Gajewski, is a significant centre of translational medicine, i.e. transferring the effects of veterinary research into human medicine, on the Polish and world scale.