The Negative Inspiratory Force Index (NIF)

The C20C Index

What is it? How is it measured? Why is it relevant? Why is it helpful to improve the outcome?

Proportional Pressure Support

The Inspiratory and Expiratory Trigger

Mandatory Minute Ventilation (MMV)

Autoflow: What is it, why is it relevant and why is it helpful to improve the outcome?

QuickSet: What is it, how to use it, why is it relevant and why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Pressure Link: What is it, how to use it, why is it relevant and why is it helpful to improve outcomes?

Avoiding Pressure Ulcers in NIV: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Volume Guarantee: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Autorelease: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Variable Pressure Support: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Time Constant: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Smart Pulmonary View: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

ETCO2 Monitoring: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

PEEPi: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Dead Space Volume: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

CO2 Production: What is it, why is it helpful to improve outcomes and how to avoid it?

Incremental PEEP and Pinsp: How to perform it with a Dräger ventilator?

Sustained Inflation – 40 by 40: Description, how to perform it with a Dräger ventilator and examples

Sustained Inflation – Continuous distending pressure: Description and how to perform it with a Dräger ventilator

Intermittent Sighs/ Intermittent High level of PEEP: Description, how to perform it with a Dräger ventilator and examples

Leak Compensation: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Volume Support: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Leak Adaptation: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

ATC: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Manual Disconnection and anti-air shower: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Smartcare/PS: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Suction Manoeuvre: What is it? How is it working? Why is it helpful to improve outcome?

Keeping the right balance is hard when mixing anesthesia drugs.

See how the sample line and the related gas analyzer are working in a team.

Why is flow measurement important and how does it work?

Why is flow measurement important in ICU and anesthesia ventilators?

See how why CO2 Monitoring is important and the advantages of orginial  CO2 Cuvettes

Mechanical vs. Electrostatic filter

Theory and Practical Applications 

Author: Jane Pillow

The Oxylog 3000 plus incorporates the benefits of pressure controlled ventilation into volume controlled ventilation.

Spontaneous breathing during artificial ventilation

The realisation of regional ventilation monitoring 

Authors: Eckhard Teschner, Michael Imhoff & Steffen Leonhardt

The History of Mechanical Ventilation 

Author: Ernst Bahns 

Author: Karin Deden 

Authors: Dr. K. Rupp, Dr. J. Holzki, Dr. T. Fischer and Dr. C. Keller 

Volume I 

A New Triggered Ventilation Mode for Neonates 

Authors: Jean Christophe Rozé and Thomas Krüger 

Author: Frank Ralfs 

The automated weaning protocol 

Authors: Andreas Neumann and Hartmut Schmidt 

New Approaches in Volume Controlled Ventilation for Neonates 

Authors: Jag Ahluwalia, Colin Morley and Hans Georg Wahle 

Clinical techniques for use with rebreathing systems

Authors: Christian Hönemann and Bert Mierke

Nottingham City Hospital chose the Dräger Movita® workplace solution aiming at providing all-round access to the patient, ergonomic positioning and handling of medical equipment, excellent cable management, and a free floor. The new integrated hoist and mobilization system resulted in improved clinical workflow, patient comfort and safety, and staff satisfaction.

In February 2012, Dräger Zeus® Infinity Empowered (IE) target controlled capable anaesthetic machines were introduced into all operating theatres within City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

In 2013 Glenfield Hospitals, part of University Hospitals Leicester, changed its approach to using the Dräger Evita. This has enabled the hospital to make cost efficiencies, improve patient comfort and increase ease of use for staff, forming part of a seamless care pathway.

Although low- and minimal-flow anaesthesia offers many benefits, successful adoption has been hindered by a lack of simple-to-use methods to guide anaesthetists on the efficient usage of volatile gases. This is now set to change following an advancement in gas monitoring software, which measures the actual agent consumption versus uptake.

Protocolised Care in the Weaning Process.

Knowledge-Based Systems for Automatic Ventilatory Management

Committed to guiding daily respiratory therapy and helping prevent lung damage. Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) has received increasing attention from the scientific community for more than 20 years. Its documented contribution to monitoring, quantification and the evaluation of therapeutic measures effectively complements other tools for respiratory monitoring.

Improving Intensive Care Unit (ICU) outcomes by reducing ventilator associated complications and ventilator days may be achieved by re-engineering the weaning process 1.

At Norwalk Hospital, clinicians are reaping the benefits of a multi-tiered platform in one, user-friendly format.

A case description of a patient who was difficult to wean.

Philip Thaut, respiratory therapist, explains in this interview why SmartCare®/PS became an essential adjunct to the current ventilator management strategy at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Provo.

In 2009 London’s St Mary’s Hospital Imperial NHS Trust changed from reusable to disposable expiration valves in the adult ICU. The decision, which was based on several factors including improved infection control and ease of use, has also brought the benefits of lower cost and immediate availability.

When choosing patient monitors for its new Cardiac Unit, Derriford Hospital thought beyond a single unit and created a hospital-wide solution where the monitor follows the patient throughout the episode of care – collecting vital signs data without interruption and making clinical data available wherever needed via the network

Initiation and ongoing clinical management of an infant supported by Volume Guarantee – A Case Study