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Implementing NAVA and Edi monitoring as lung protective elements in a regional hospital ICU Monklands Hospital on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland is a district general hospital. The six bed intensive care department treates a wide variety of between 360 and 380 medical and surgical ICU patients each year. The ICU recently implemented Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist - NAVA, as well as Edi monitoring in their unit. They became positive to NAVA after experiencing it in a worse-case scenario: a patient that had been on conventional mechanical ventilation for 62 days. Download this article as PDF - including clickable references to abstracts, when available in the public domain READ MORE |