Comments, suggestions, corrections and bug reports all come to the same inbox — and all of them make this better for the next clinician who opens it.
josephdsilver44@gmail.com
The Email me button opens a message with the details already filled in. Anything you can tell me about the ventilator, the case and what you were doing when it went wrong makes a fix far quicker to find.
The EMS Ventilator Simulator is a passion project. It is written and maintained by one person, funded out of my own pocket, and given away free — no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, and no manufacturer or commercial backing behind it.
Ventilation is a high-acuity, low-frequency skill. The calls that need it are rare — a clinician may see only a handful in a year — while the cost of getting one wrong is measured in minutes, and there is no room to build the repetitions on a real patient. High acuity and low frequency is a hard pair to train against, and that gap is what this is for.
It exists because ventilator time is hard to get and easy to lose. A clinician who has already worked the problem on a screen — the mode, the tidal volume, the pressure that starts climbing — walks into the real one calmer, and the patient gets a better first five minutes.
If it has been useful to you, your service or your students, a contribution keeps it running.
Support is a gift, not a purchase. It is not tax-deductible, it does not buy clinical advice or priority support, and the simulator stays free and unchanged either way — it is a training aid, not a medical device, and it is never to be used for the care of a real patient.