Disclosed is a control and display area for a medical ventilator, comprising or consisting of a control film having at least one control element. The control film is optically transparent in one or more sections thereof and opaque in one or more other sections thereof and at least the optically transparent section(s) of the control film is/are connected by an optically clear adhesive element with a display lying therebelow and the one or more opaque sections, at least in part, is/are connected by an adhesive element with the housing of the medical ventilator lying therebelow.
