Multi-task ventilator testers
TSI's battery-operated Certifier FA and Certifier FA Plus flow analysers.
Ventilation
World's smallest lung function testing system meets latest ATS/ ERS spirometry standards
SpiroStar is the smallest lung function testing system in the world, reports its Finnish manufacturer Medikro Oy. Weighing just 22 grams, this also became one of the first to satisfy the new and changed requirements for the calculation of lung function testing, meeting the latest ATS/ERS spirometry standards.
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Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), particularly when performed immediately by those witnessing a cardiac or respiratory arrest, definitively saves lives - especially in witnessed cases of ventricular fibrillation (VF) and childhood drowning events. Nevertheless, the frequency of bystander CPR still remains mostly low. In turn, survival chances for potentially salvageable patients remain…
Visualising the breathing lung
After previous meetings in the USA (2002) and Japan (2004), this October the 3rd International Workshop of Pulmonary Functional Imaging (IWPFI) took place in the German Cancer Research Centre, based in Heidelberg University, Germany. " 'The clinicians' need for earlier and more detailed diagnosis in pulmonary disease demands a joint interdisciplinary effort to push the limits in pulmonary…
Continuous renal replacement therapy
The Prismaflex monitor, produced by Gambro Healthcare provides extra therapy options and features for continuous renal replacement therapy.
The European respiratory diseases market
Affordable, effective and innovative products drive sales.
Products span respiratory care
Respironics develops and manufactures innovative sleep and respiratory products and programmes, which it distributes internationally:
Fixed value PEEP valves and CPAP systems
Intersurgical expanded its range of respiratory products.
The Vela Diamond
Another introduction at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress, in Spain, was the Vela Diamond mechanical ventilator platform made by Viasys Healthcare.
The Raphael XTC
The Raphael XTC offers non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV), full-featured invasive ventilation and easy switching between those two ventilatory modes. Its Swiss manufacturer, Hamilton Medical AG, also points out that the system is fully adapted for use in sub-acute care units, long-term care centres, intensive care departments, recovery rooms and during patient transit.
A new family of ventilators by Dräger Medical
Two new ventilators - Carina and Carina home - were introduced at the 26th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels.
Patient's brain controls mechanical ventilation
Among ventilation advances demonstrated at this year's European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress, held in Barcelona, the combination of the SERVO-i ventilator with Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) provoked considerable interest because the system allows ventilation to be controlled by the patient's own respiratory centre in the brain. During a discussion with Daniela…
GE launches a new monitoring technique
Working in tandem, two new technologies — SpiroDynamics and FRC INview — measure pressure and volume directly from a patient's lung.
Maquet Critical Care is launching the NAVA
System enables ventilator to be controlled by the patient's brain.
VoluCount monitors entire gas usage
VoluCount, a new system by Draeger Medical accurately measures the consumption of all installed medical gases in all hospital areas.
Pulmotension
EU multidisciplinary lung research project aims to cure pulmonary hypertension.
The extracorporeal lung
German medical technology firm Novalung GmbH (est. 2002) produces extracorporeal artificial lungs.
Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Professor Paul Pepe and Dr Jane Wigginton discuss current research and concepts that will affect the future of basic CPR.
The 1st International Congress of Respiratory Biology (ICRB)
You are invited to be part of a forum to bring respiratory biological research together, to discuss and build. Ours is a growing and vital discipline.
Faster weaning enhances patient care
SmartCare, a software solution from Dräger Medical could cut the time of a weaning process by around 50%.
AEIOU
A Web guide for mechanical ventilation in anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.
A percutaneous dilation tracheostomy kit
Tracoe experc kit, designed for percutaneous dilation tracheostomy, is based on the established Ciaglia technique with single step dilation.
Measuring oxygen uptake
USA - A satellite symposium will be provided at the 53rd ACSM Annual meeting in Denver, Colorado (30 May) by VIASYS Healthcare Inc. and the American College of Sports & Medicine.
Article • Vest airway clearance system
Oscillation system moves mucus
The Vest Airway Clearance System (which is technique independent and treats all lobes of the lungs simultaneously) helps to mobilise pulmonary secretion via high-frequency chest wall oscillation.
Article • Company Profile
In the spotlight: Schiller AG
Alfred E Schiller, founder and managing director of Schiller AG, based in Baar, Switzerland, describes the rise of his company and its place in today’s highly competitive intensive care market. Alfred Schiller founded Schiller AG in 1971 and three years later introduced his first product – a pocket-sized electrocardioscope, which has been built on successively over the years. The…