Keywords: Ventilation

05/13/2013

Celebrating the 60th birthday of a fabulous lifesaver

This May it will be exactly 60 years since the first extracorporeal circulation device to temporarily replace heart/ lung function was successfully used in a clinical setting. …

04/26/2013

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

There is little evidence on respiratory support with extracorporeal systems – enough of an argument for most of those doubting the procedure not to use it, or even make it …

03/06/2013

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

The use of endotracheal tubes with a dorsal lumen to allow drainage of respiratory secretions is currently not common in Germany, although two meta-analyses from the USA and …

02/20/2013

More sleep can reduce delirium in intensive care patients

A hospital is not the best place to get a good night’s sleep, especially in a noisy intensive care unit. …

11/14/2012

GE unveils avance CS2 Anaesthesia Delivery System

Leveraging more than 100 years of anaesthesia expertise, GE Healthcare introduces ecoFLOW technology option to help guide clinicians in agent delivery, while providing economic …

11/13/2012

GE introduces Giraffe Stand Alone Resuscitation System

GE Healthcare yesterday announced the availability of the Giraffe® Stand-Alone Infant Resuscitation (STAR) System, which integrates critical capabilities to enhance effective …

09/04/2012

Breathing new life into ventilators

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09/04/2012

A ‘Sky(I)CU’ for the world travel champions

In 2011, among Germany’s 82 million people 69.5 million holiday trips were made, each lasting at least five days; 47.8 million (68.8%) of these were abroad. …

09/04/2012

Ventilators for mobility and intensive care units

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07/10/2012

Safer sleep, safer sugar

Ensuring the safety of hospitalised patients is vital – and brought under a particularly strong focus in anaesthesiology. Launched in 2010, the Helsinki Declaration provided a …

06/14/2012

Neonatologists recommend volume-targeted ventilation for premature babies

Volume-targeted ventilated premature babies have a higher survival rate and suffer less ventilation-related lung damage – this is the result of a survey amongst international …

05/02/2012

Breathing space

If the hopes of inventors are to be believed, in around 20 years’ time there will be ‘real artificial lungs -- for now the endpoint of a history that began 84 years ago with …

04/18/2012

Reducing breath size and pressure from ICU ventilator increases long-term survival in people with acute lung injury

Carefully adjusting mechanical ventilator settings in the intensive care unit to pump smaller breaths into very sick lungs can reduce the chances of dying by as much as 8 percent, …

04/26/2011

Hemolung speeds COPD patient recovery

This March, Heinz-Dieter Hilgers arrived for his once-monthly check-up at Ruhrlandklinik in Essen. Last June, his situation was far less relaxed. Suffering chronic obstructive …

02/28/2011

Easy breathe - new tools for prolonged lung support

Often a life-saving intervention, mechanical ventilation also has some serious drawbacks: the need for sedation, the risk of ventilator associated pneumonia, intubation or …

02/25/2011

Electrical impedance tomography

This March, Dräger Medical will bring to the bedside of respiratory patients an innovative new monitor that vividly shows, breath-by-breath, their response to treatment. After …

11/09/2010

Linde Healthcare launches new funding for healthcare innovation

The Linde Group’s global business unit Linde Healthcare today announced it has launched the Linde Healthcare REALfund in September. The fund is intended to support and stimulate …

11/03/2010

No more machines!

For many ICU patients, entering the Kloster Grafschaft, in Schmallenberg, Germany, a hospital specialised in pneumology and allergology, is a last resort. On average, they have …

11/03/2010

Ventilation-associated pneumonia

Every year in German hospitals about 15,000 patients acquire ventilation-associated pneumonias (VAP). This number, and the associated mortality, is striking enough to make it one …

06/21/2010

New GE technology powers sick babies’ journeys within hospitals

GE Healthcare has introduced to the European market the Giraffe® Shuttle transportable power source for its Giraffe and Panda families of incubators and warmers. By transforming …