Critical Medical Care Applications

Lithium and lithium-ion batteries are used to power a number of medical devices and medical electrical equipment: hearing aids, pacemakers, surgical tools, medical defibrillators, robots, infusion pumps, monitors, and meters are just some examples of medical devices that have benefited from implementing lithium batteries into their design and function.

The Lithium Ion battery connects to the Ventilator’s power inlet. When the Lithium Ion battery is unplugged, the Ventilator automatically reverts to internal battery power. The Lithium Ion battery is inserted into the outside pouch of the Transport Pack and is held in place by Velcro straps. An electronic “fuel gauge” consisting of five LED’s shows the status of the battery charge. The battery is a Lithium Ion type battery; therefore, it has none of the memory effects seen in rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries (“memory effect” refers to the phenomenon where the apparent discharge capacity of a battery is reduced when it is repetitively discharged incompletely and then recharged) and does not have to be completely discharged prior to recharging