The subject of respiratory mechanics has complex characteristics, functions, and interactions that can be difficult to understand in training and medical education contexts. As such, education strategies based on computational simulations comprise useful tools, but their application in the medical area requires stricter validation processes. This paper shows a statistical and a Delphi validation for two modules of a web application used for respiratory system learning: (I) “Anatomy and Physiology” and (II) “Work of Breathing Indexes”. For statistical validation, population and individual analyses were made using a database of healthy men to compare experimental and model-predicted data. For both modules, the predicted values followed the trend marked by the experimental data in the population analysis, while in the individual analysis, the predicted errors were 9.54% and 25.38% for maximal tidal volume and airflow, respectively, and 6.55%, 9.33%, and 11.77% for rapid shallow breathing index, work of breathing, and maximal inspiratory pressure, respectively. For the Delphi validation, an average higher than 4 was obtained after health professionals evaluated both modules from 1 to 5. In conclusion, both modules are good tools for respiratory system learning processes. The studied parameters behaved consistently with the expressions that describe ventilatory dynamics and were correlated with experimental data; furthermore, they had great acceptance by specialists.
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