Neonatal Ventilation
—Our ventilation strategies along with our neonatal ventilators support premature infants' respiratory systems, preventing lung and brain damage. We aim to minimize injury, reduce breathing effort, and optimize comfort for safe growth.
Improve your outcome with volume guarantee
—Volume guarantee is a mode of ventilation used for measuring tidal volumes and monitoring changes in lung characteristics with sophisticated software algorithms. It has been designed to combine the advantages of both pressure-limited ventilation and volume-controlled ventilation. Clinical evidence has shown that babies ventilated with volume guarantee are more likely to survive – free of lung damage and chronic diseases. These benefits can also attribute to cost reductions in the NICU.
Downloads to enrich your knowledge
Volume Guarantee for neonatal ventilation
Read more about new approaches in volume targeted ventilation for newborn babies.
Prof. Martin Keszler on Neonatal Ventilation
Prof. Martin Keszler talks about how neonatal ventilation has progressed throughout the years and how volume guarantee can support a positive outcome of neonatal ventilation.
Case study: Volume Guarantee in Seattle
In this case study, you will read about the initiation and ongoing clinical management of infants supported by volume guarantee.
Ventilation Insights: Volume Guarantee Ventilation
The aim of any ventilation strategy is to support the neonate‘s respiratory system without inducing damage to the lung or the brain. Volume Guarantee ventilation supports stabilisation of the infant and gentle respiratory treatment with a more stable minute ventilation. Learn more in our Ventilation Insights on how Volume Guarantee ventilation helps to improve patient outcome.
Literature list: Volume Guarantee
Want to read more about clinical studies, cases and reviews on volume guarantee? Take a look at our literature list.
High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) for Neonates
—HFOV is a mode of ventilation which has been in clinical use for over thirty years. In many hospitals around the world, HFOV is now an established first-intention ventilation approach for respiratory disease. HFOV is used to treat diseases such as respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, meconium aspiration syndrome, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn and lung hypoplasia – more successfully and more gently than conventional ventilation.
Recommended downloads
Theoretical and practical applications of HFOV
The booklet 'High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation' written by Prof. Jane Pillow aims both to help less experienced clinicians become familiar with high-frequency oscillation, whilst also providing additional detail to enhance the understanding of more experienced HFOV users.
Ventilation Insights: High-Frequency Oscillation
High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) is a comprehensive ventilator strategy applied as priori and rescue ventilator modality in order to improve pulmonary gas exchange. It offers opportunities for lung protective ventilation whilst minimising rheotrauma. Learn more in our Ventilation Insights on how HFOV helps to improve patient outcome.
New: Background and Clinical Applications of MMV
—Our new booklet outlines the background and clinical applications of MMV in neonates to enable you to maximise the potential benefits and to ensure its safe application.
Mandatory Minute Ventilation (MMV)
—Mandatory Minute Ventilation (MMV) is a relatively simple closed-loop mode of ventilation, whereby the ventilator delivers pressure-limited, volume-targeted mandatory breaths when the minute volume (generated by pressure supported spontaneous breaths) falls below a target minimum Minute Volume (MV). It gives you the possibility to control your patient’s ventilation, whilst safeguarding on a minimum minute ventilation level. In addition, it can be considered a safe weaning strategy as it combines frequency adaptation and pressure adaptation in one mode and adapts to the individual patient needs. Furthermore, it adapts safely for leakage for trigger sensitivity and compensates for leakage in volume guarantee.
Webinar: Mandatory Minute Ventilation with Prof. Jane Pillow
Our webinar “Mandatory Minute Ventilation” will help you become more familiar with the theory, clinical application and operating principle of MMV.
- Understanding how MMV works
- Theoretical benefits and risks of MMV
- Clinical application of MMV in neonates
- PC-MMV and Volume Guarantee operating principle
Recommended downloads
Ventilation Insights: MMV in Premature Infants
The start of ventilation therapy is always the start of a weaning process. To prevent chronic lung diseases such as BPD, it is essential to directly help the infant to regain their own respiratory drive. Mandatory Minute Ventilation 'closes the loop' in the weaning process. Learn more in our Ventilation Insights on how Mandatory Minute Ventilation helps to improve patient outcome.
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Continually evolving care for newborns
Our goal is to help you improve patient outcomes during the newborn’s golden hour, transport flow and NICU stay, while supporting you and the baby’s parents with training material and educational resources. We continue developing technology and innovative design that helps ease workflows, improve therapy and support developmental care and infection prevention practices.
Neonatal Care
Our neonatal care technology enables you as caregivers to deliver life-sustaining, non-invasive, developmental care to neonates in a nurturing and supportive environment.
Ventilation Insights: Volume Guarantee Ventilation
Volume Guarantee ventilation supports stabilisation of the infant and gentle respiratory treatment with a more stable minute ventilation.
Developmental Care
NICUs can be tough environments – for babies, parents and caregivers. Pro-developmental and family-centred care concepts help to remove the factors that cause stress.
Neonatal Ventilation Accessories
Seventy-five percent of neonatal deaths occur in the first week of life. This reality motivates us to create gentle, efficient solutions for NICU care, aiming to reduce morbidity, mortality, and stress for newborns and staff. We prioritize our accessories and consumables to protect your smallest patients effectively.
