inform participants and their employers. Ultimately, the assessments span two full days. Participants receive time off work, compensation for lost wages, a €50 allowance, and a travel cost subsidy, among other things. What is the scientific significance of sleep medicine within the SHIP study? Sleep medical examination did…
Intensive care medicine. Life is breathing. Intensive care ventilation can be a lifesaver. Both in emergencies and in the intensive care units . The primary goal is to provide lung-protective ventilation and to wean patients off ventilation as early as possible. Ventilation is used when a patient's spontaneous breathing is…
med. Barbara Schäuble. Prof. Dr. med. Barbara Schäuble studied medicine in Freiburg (D) and Glasgow (UK). After training in Zurich, her specialist training was completed in Boston (US) in 2001 and later with FMH certification in Switzerland in 2022. Additional training in epileptology took place at the Mayo Clinic in…
Sleep diagnostics. Sleep diagnostic solutions for every need. Frequent daytime sleepiness, reduced performance, and cardiovascular disease can be attributed to disturbed sleep. In modern sleep medicine, over 80 clinical sleep disorders are known, which can lead to far-reaching complaints. The overnight recording of…
disorder clearly, comprehensively, and reliably, patients must be examined in a sleep laboratory. This examination method is also called polysomnography. It is used when preliminary examinations have yielded no or inconclusive results, to confirm the diagnosis, or to test treatment options. A detailed medical history is…
affected patients. The consequences of SDB can range from daytime sleepiness with reduced performance to high blood pressure , heart attacks and strokes . For instance, patients with heart failure are at a high risk of also suffering from SDB. Among the treatment methods, nocturnal positive pressure ventilation is the most…
Scala Polygraphy for versatile uses. Scala is a classic polygraphy device for detecting sleep-related breathing disorders. In addition, the device comes with a standard package with various extensions to cater to different user groups – all in one device. Given its variety of options, Scala is highly suited for use in…
AASM compatibility. Sonata's operation is based on the AASM manual. This manual outlines standardized measurement arrangements, electrode placement guidelines, and digitization parameters. It also provides guidelines for sleep scoring. Unmatched economic efficiency. Using Sonata incurs low follow-up costs. Measurements are…
other patient care tasks. The problem here is that the existing methods of continuous measurement of the carbon dioxide partial pressure (paCO 2 ), such as transcutaneous measurement, do not always provide reliable values and the end-tidal CO 2 (etCO 2 ) can often not be measured with the tiniest patients due to the dead…
babies with an expected birth weight of under 1,500 grams (irrespective of the week of pregnancy) should receive care in specialized perinatal centers, on the basis of the relevant requirements 5, 6 . Especially extremely premterm infants whose lives are hanging by a thread need access to professional, experienced intensive…
gentle support in the other ventilation fields, close to the natural breathing processes. With every breath. The last decades in a nutshell. Löwenstein at a glance. From the Heinen + Löwenstein beginnings to today's corporate structure as Löwenstein Medical. 1986 Heinen + Löwenstein After Reinhard Löwenstein joins the…
elisa 500 The new compact class with the latest turbine technology. With the elisa 500, there is no need to sacrifice top-of-the-line features in the compact class. The entire therapeutic spectrum of clinical respiratory medicine is also available with turbine devices. A powerful, noise-optimized turbine ensures more than…