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Lung Protection Workshop December 8-9, 2009,
This Lung Protectioin Workshop comprises a theoretical portion including lung physiology and recruitment, as well as highlighting the NAVA concept and NAVA in clinical practice. The hands-on session i...

Time: 08 Dec 2009
Place: The Academic University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

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Institutional experience of NAVA in neuro and cardiovascular intensive care patients
Jim Kutsogiannis, MD, Darryl Ewanchuk, RRT, Craig Guenther, MD, Kevin Coghlan, RRT, and Julie Mitchell, RRT.

The University Hospital of Alberta in Edmonton is a leading Canadian clinical, research and teaching hospital. The institution was one of the first to implement and utilize NAVA - Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist. Two specialty critical care units have been gaining experience in specific patient categories: the Cardiovascular ICU and the Neuro ICU, and the technology is in line to be implemented at the pediatric and neonatal ICU at Stollery Children's Hospital within the institution.

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Neonatal and Pediatric Ventilation: Emerging Trends and Challenges - A Symposium Summary Report from Akron Children's Hospital Professor Mark Heulitt, MD, Little Rock Children's Hospital, Arkansas; Jennifer Beck, PhD, of Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Maureen Reilly, RRT, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada; and Howard M Stein, MD, Neonatologist at Toledo Children's Hospital in Ohio.	Read More

Clinical experience of NAVA in 40 neonatal patients Neonatologist Howard Stein, MD; Diane Howard, RRT, Educational Coordinator and Judith Gresky, RN, MSN, CMP, NICU Director.	Read More

Research and establishing standards of care and training for neonatal intensive care in China Dr Bo Sun, MD, PhD, Head of Laboratory of Pediatric Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine and Neonatal Intensive Care Chief Dr Chao Chen and staff members, Shanghai Children's Hospital of Fudan University.	Read More

First impressions of the use of a new Heliox ventilator solution. Dr Ian White, intensive care physician, St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey, U.K.	Read More

The need for high ventilatory performance in anesthesia - perspectives from two clinicians in anesthesiology Per-Arne Lönnqvist, MD, PhD, pediatric anesthesiologist at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Sweden, and Xavier Capdevila, MD, PhD of the University Hospital of Montpelier, France.	Read More

Latest News: Updated Lung Recruitment Literature Reference List!!

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Go to the updated Lung Recruitment literature reference list for links to abstracts for the latest selected publications on the topic of Lung Recruitment

Case of the Month:
The use of Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) in spinal cord injury.
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A 36 year old male was involved in a motor vehicle collision and found to be clinically quadriplegic staff in the ER. The patient was switched to Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) in the neurosciences ICU, and remained on NAVA for the duration of his stay there. NAVA was well tolerated, evidenced by good patient-ventilatory synchrony. Case contributed by D.J. Kutsogiannis MD, and D Ewanchuk RT, The University Hospital of Alberta Neurosciences ICU, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.