Fellow MD trying to help with engineered solutions.
Perhaps check this out as well; someone used a common valve from a hardware store to titrate pressures up and down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVbwWANqRI&feature=youtu.be.
I've been thinking about how we might increase ventilation to one part of the circuit if the pCO2 drops too badly--any thoughts there?