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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Respiratory Medicine
  • Control Systems

Background:

  • Oxygen therapy is crucial for hypoxemic chronic lung diseases.
  • Manual oxygen flow rate adjustment is time-consuming and staff-intensive.
  • Autonomous systems offer potential improvements over manual control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review principles, algorithms, and accuracy of autonomous closed-loop oxygen devices.
  • To provide recommendations for future research in this field.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic literature search across medical and engineering databases (MEDLINE, IEEE-Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science).
  • Narrative synthesis of collected research findings.

Main Results:

  • Closed-loop controllers maintain higher saturation levels than manual practice.
  • Autonomous systems reduce time spent below target saturation and conserve oxygen.
  • Despite benefits, autonomous oxygen therapy devices are not yet common in clinical practice.

Conclusions:

  • Widespread adoption is limited by challenges in algorithm robustness and fail-safe mechanisms.
  • Sensor reliability and usability issues require further investigation.
  • Standardized risk assessment and evaluation methods are needed for new automatic oxygen devices.