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The need for more research pertaining to ventilatory assist

– perspectives from Doctor Lluis Blanch at Sabadell Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Research in respiratory regulation with NAVA

Interview with Professor Haibo Qiu at the Zhongda hospital, Nanjing, China

Multi-disciplinary experience of NAVA at the University Hospital of Bordeaux

Dr Philippe Mauriat, Prof Olivier Brissaud, Prof Gilles Hilbert, Prof Frederic Vargas, Dr Hadrien Rozé

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.

Peri-operative ventilation - What criteria are important for the widest range of patients?

Dr Javier Garcia Fernandez, Head of Pediatric Surgical Intensive Care, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

FLOW-i in clinical use for the first time: First Impressions given by five clinicians

Professor Iapichino, MD, Dr Assi, MD, and Dr Di Mauro, MD, at San Paolo Hospital in Milano, Italy, Dr Dirk Himpe, MD, PhD, at ZNA Middelheim Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, Dr Gallioli, MD, of the Department of Anesthesia at Vimercate Hospital, Monza, Italy

Obese and morbidly-obese patients - addressing the challenges of perioperative ventilation

Dr Jan Paul J Mulier, MD, PhD, Brugge, Belgium; Dr Jeremy Collins, Standford University Hospital and Dr Robert H Pinsker, El Camino Hospital, California, USA

First impressions of NIV NAVA in a general ICU environment

Dr Peter Nordlund, Ryhov Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden

First impressions of NIV NAVA in neonatal patients

Dr Liisa Lehtonen, Turku University Hospital, Finland

Experience and implementation of NAVA in COPD patients

Dr Filipe Saddy, Hospital Copa D'Or, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Implementing NAVA and Edi monitoring as lung protective elements in a regional hospital ICU

Dr James Ruddy, Intensivist, Monklands Hospital, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Lung Protection Symposium and Workshop Summary with focus on Lung Recruitment and Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist - NAVA.

Dr Fernando Suarez Sipmann, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid and Dr Charles Gomersall of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ventilating infants in critical care air transports

Tova Hannegård Hamrin, Director Pediatric Anesthesia and Annika Schön, RN, PETS (Pediatric Emergency Transport Service), Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital. Åsa Englund, acting Managing Director, and Carina Ramstedt, RN, flight nurse, the Swedish Air Ambulance Company.

NAVA in the post-operative treatment of congenital heart disease infants

ICU Chief Dr Shi Zhenying, intensive care physician Dr Zhu Limin, Shanghai Children's Medical Center

NAVA - translating research into clinical practice

Thomas Similowski, MD, PhD, head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care and head of the Respiratory Pathophysiology Laboratory, and ICU physician Dr Alexandre Demoule.

Clinical application of NAVA - the ICU team perspective

Professor Said Hachimi-Idrissi, MD and Clinical Nurse Specialist Dirk Danschutter, University Hospital of Brussels - Jette.

Challenges and developments in lung protective ventilation for neonatal and pediatric patients in Mumbai

Neonatologist and Pediatric Intensivist Dr Hiren N Doshi, Program Director and his associate Dr Suresh Birajdar

NAVA: technology evolving from bench to bedside

Lukas Brander, MD, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital - Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland

Challenges and opportunities in respiratory therapy for neonatal intensive care patients

Kim Watkins, RRT-NPS, Clinical Coordinator of Respiratory Therapy and Terrence J Sweeney, MD, Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist - NAVA: a continuing focus on physiology

Fernando Suarez Sipmann, MD and Paloma Gonzalez Arenas, MD

Evaluation of a ventilator solution in a mobile ICU

Tomas Åhlund, MD, Lennart Ohlsson, MD, Anne Magnusson, RN, Ronny Knutsson, RN, Kristianstad Regional Hospital

Open Lung methodology in ARDS patients

Dr Gopalakrishnan Raman and Dr V R Pattabhi Raman, Kovai Medical Center

NAVA - past, present and future perceptions

Professor Francesco Della Corte, MD, and Paolo Navalesi, MD, Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy

ICU implementation and clinical application of non-invasive ventilation protocols

Guilherme Schettino, MD, PhD, Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, Brazil

Clinical evaluation of NAVA in a series of pediatric ICU patients

Dr Brendan O'Hare, Our Lady´s Children´s Hospital Crumlin in Dublin.

First experiences with NAVA in a University Hospital setting

Nicholas Wyon, MD, PhD, Linköping University Hospital

First impressions of NAVA in adult patients

Carl-Johan Wickerts, MD, PhD, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Paradigm shifts in mechanical ventilation - a NAVA session report

Christer Sinderby, PhD, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Jennifer Beck, PhD, Women’s College Hospital NICU, University of Toronto, Canada

Experiences with NAVA in pediatric intensive care patients

Karl Erik Edberg, MD, PhD, The Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Defining new procedures and solutions in ventilation patient transports

Liselott Järvinen, RN, Intensive Care Department, Ullevål Hospital in Oslo, Norway

The continuing development of neonatal and pediatric ventilation therapies

Dr Ralf G Huth, Director of Pediatric Intensive Care, Children´s Hospital of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

NAVA – a new generation in respiratory therapy

Christer Sinderby PhD, Department of Critical Care, St. Michael´s Hospital Toronto, Canada

Tailoring and improving respiratory therapies in an expanding university hospital environment

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital of New Brunswick, New Jersey

Ventilation procedures for intensive care air transports

Assistant Professor G Kuhnle,MD, Munich University Hospital Systems, Germany

New weaning procedures for post-op cardiac patients

Professor L Algotsson MD, Lund University Hospital, Sweden

Two years post SARS: the experience and the need for a state of preparedness

Professor C Gomersall, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong

Alveolar recruitment: physiological basis and application

VUMC University Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mechanisms of atelectasis in anesthesia and intensive care

Professor G Hedenstierna, Academic University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Gaining clinical experience in non-invasive ventilation

Professor Massimo Antonelli, University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Open Lung strategies at a teaching institution

Professor A Girbes, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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NAVA can be used to transition from long-term HFO

Question 1: The ICU at Monklands Hospital, Glasgow used NAVA for the first time in a complex situation with a severely ill young patient (see the patient case report on www.criticalcarenews.com for further details). The patient was transitioned from 62 days on HFO to NAVA with success. What is your experience in transitioning patients from long-term HFO?

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Premature infant weighing 393g, Anesthetized and ventilated with FLOW-i

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