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13.15-14.30 today: Workshop at ERS Congress

 ROOM M2 (B0), ERS CONGRESS
13.15-14.30, 8 September 2014

Join us for the Practical Workshop “Secretion management – Innovative treatment methods for COPD and Neuromuscolar patients”! Hands-on accounts of major Italian and German excellence centres with the Pegaso and Mini Pegaso Cough and percussion therapy will be given. The workshop will show in-depth practical experience with neuromuscular, quadriplegic and COPD patients and provide an authentic guideline on how to successfully treat the secretion problems of these patients. You will see several case histories and learn about innovative treatment methods using the PEGASO’s percussion therapy. This therapy is used for patients who need Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation, due to mucus hyper-secretion or deeply retained secretions combined with an extreme difficulty in clearing airways. 

13:15 PEGASO A-COUGH PERC: Overview of the application fields and their treatment with percussion and cough assistant therapy. Guideline to parameter settings in a critical care and homecare setting. 

Speaker: J. Geiseler (Gauting, Germany)

13:30 High and lower flow percussion therapy – analysis of the differences and suitable treatment parameters. Percussion therapy in ICU with the PEGASO & MINI PEGASO A-COUGH PERC. 
Speaker: M. Boccali (Imola, Italy)
13:45 Hands on – practical demonstration of the use of PEGASO & MINI PEGASO A-COUGH PERC.

Link to the complete programme: http://www.dimaitalia.com/english/index.php/events/15-recent-works/13-ers-workshop

Newsletter - September 2014

ERS International Congress: Workshop on Secretion Management and Percussion Therapy

ERS Congress is finally here! Come and visit us at our Booth B02 in Hall B1 and join us for our Workshop on Secretion Management Monday 8th September, Room M2 in Hall B0.

The Practical Workshop “Secretion management – Innovative treatment methods for COPD and Neuromuscolar patients” will provide hands-on accounts of major Italian and German excellence centres with the Pegaso and Mini Pegaso Cough and percussion therapy. The workshop will show in-depth practical experience with neuromuscular, quadriplegic and COPD patients and provide an authentic guideline on how to successfully treat the secretion problems of these patients. You will see several case histories and learn about innovative treatment methods using the PEGASO’s percussion therapy. This therapy is used for patients who need Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation, due to mucus hyper-secretion or deeply retained secretions combined with an extreme difficulty in clearing airways. Click here for the workshop programme

“Clear as the moon… “ the new LUNA ventilator by Dima Italia

To be released in December 2014. Dima Italia’s latest device Luna is a pressure-controlled portable ventilation that focuses on the essential and goes straight to the point. It combines the most recent technological advancements with straightforward usability and functions, without unnecessary complications - easy to use, clear as the moon.

Pressure-controlled ventilation is the most popular ventilation form and is also recommended by the German Board of Ventilation due to its reduced lateral effects (S2 – Leitlinie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin e.V.).

Our field experience within medical wards and the feedback received from health professionals has taught us that less is more and that thoughtful simplification is a value to cherish, thus the prompt to develop the LUNA ventilator. Its extensive lithium battery autonomy, providing over 10 hours of therapy, ensures the patient’s freedom of movement. Its reliability and portability are comforting and reassuring for patients. Click here to download the brochure.  

New Multilevel

Dima Italia is proud to announce the release of the new Multilevel, sporting a new design and improved precision and performance in parameter monitoring.

Small yet powerful, the Multilevel is light-weight and quiet. It offers 5 ventilation modes - CPAP, Timed, Spontaneous, Spontaneous timed and the useful Spontaneous with plateau. Also known as Small alveoli ventilation, the latter provides a constant pressure at the end of inspiration, similar to a hold manoeuvre (1 to 3 seconds), which prevents the patient to exhale and keeps the alveoli open.

The models ST30V and ST40V also offer target volume ventilation, adding volume ventilation characteristics to a pressure ventilator: when setting the minimum target volume, the MULTILEVEL will adjust the positive pressure for each breath to reach exactly the target volume. This mode helps to promote the flow synchrony between the patient and can be useful in the weaning process, allowing to gradually increase the patient’s effort. Click here to see the brochure

Negative Pressure Ventilation Portal www.negativepressureventilation.com (under development)

What is the current state of negative pressure ventilation? Which centers offer it and who are the experts in this field? Dima Italia is currently working on a portal on Negative Pressure Ventilation that will be a digital think-tank on modern negative ventilation. If you are an expert and would like to contribute or share medical articles please get in touch with us at service@dimaitalia.com.

Our negative pressure ventilator Pegaso Vent will be on display at our booth S02 at ERS Congress, along with some of its accessories, such as cuirasses and the prototype of a new ventilation chamber. Please feel free to come along and assist to a demonstration!

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Secretion Management Workshop @ERS Congress. Save the date!

INVITATION TO THE WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY DIMA ITALIA ERS Congress 2014, Room M2 (B0), 8 September, 13:15-14:30 “Secretion Management - Innovative treatment methods for Neuromuscular and COPD Patients”
Room M2 (B0), ERS Congress 2014, Munich, Germany 8 September 2014, 13:15-14:30 DIMA Italia S.r.l. and Vivisol Deutschland GmbH have organised a practical workshop on secretion management in order to provide a deeper understanding of new and efficient methods for airway clearance. The PEGASO A-COUGH PERC offers a unique combination of two devices in one: percussion and cough assistant. This workshop will help to understand the various fields of application, parameter settings and how to treat critical and homecare patients. The difference between high flow and low flow percussion therapy in a neuromuscular ICU will also be discussed. The workshop is dedicated to health professionals, including pneumologists, neurologists, respiratory therapists and ICU nurses who already have experience in airway clearance and are interested in staying up to date with the most innovative treatment methods. Programme: 13:15 PEGASO A-COUGH PERC: Overview of the application fields and their treatment with percussion and cough assistant therapy. Guideline to parameter settings in a critical care and homecare setting. Speaker: J. Geiseler (Gauting, Germany) 13:30 High and lower flow percussion therapy – analysis of the differences and suitable treatment parameters. Percussion therapy in ICU with the PEGASO & MINI PEGASO A-COUGH PERC. Speaker: M. Boccali (Imola, Italy) 13:45 Hands on – practical demonstration of the use of PEGASO & MINI PEGASO A-COUGH PERC. Click here to see the Flyer

Poetry break

“Oxygen 

Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, 
while it calls the earth its home, the soul. 
So the merciful, noisy machine 

stands in our house working away in its 
lung-like voice. I hear it as I kneel 
before the fire, stirring with a 

stick of iron, letting the logs 
lie more loosely. You, in the upstairs room, 
are in your usual position, leaning on your 

right shoulder which aches 
all day. You are breathing 
patiently; it is a 

beautiful sound. It is 
your life, which is so close 
to my own that I would not know 

where to drop the knife of 
separation. And what does this have to do 
with love, except 

everything? Now the fire rises 
and offers a dozen, singing, deep-red 
roses of flame. Then it settles 

to quietude, or maybe gratitude, as it feeds 
as we all do, as we must, upon the invisible gift: 
our purest, sweet necessity: the air.” 

― Mary Oliver, Thirst

ERS Workshop on Secretion Management

8 September 2014: Save the date!

What: Workshop on Secretion management – innovative treatment methods for neuromuscular and COPD patients 

Where: ERS Congress 2014, Munich. Room M-2 (B0)

When: 8 September 2014, 13:15 - 14:30

DIMA Italia S.r.l. and Vivisol Deutschland GmbH have organised a practical workshop on secretion management in order to provide a deeper understanding of new and efficient methods for airway clearance. The PEGASO A-COUGH PERC offers a unique combination of two devices in one: percussion and cough assistant. This workshop will help to understand the various fields of application, parameter settings and how to treat critical and homecare patients. The difference between high flow and low flow percussion therapy in a neuromuscular ICU will also be discussed.

The workshop is dedicated to health professionals, including pneumologists, neurologists, respiratory therapists and ICU nurses who already have experience in airway clearance and are interested in staying up to date with the most innovative treatment methods.

Programme:

13:15    PEGASO A-COUGH PERC:  Overview of the application fields and their treatment with percussion and cough assistant therapy.

        Guideline to parameter settings in a critical care and homecare setting.

         Speaker: J. Geiseler (Gauting, Germany)                                                                                                                                    

13:30    High and lower flow percussion therapy – analysis of the differences and suitable treatment parameters.

          Percussion therapy in ICU with the PEGASO & MINI PEGASO A-COUGH PERC.  

Speaker: M. Boccali (Imola, Italy)

13:45   Hands on – practical demonstration of the use of PEGASO & MINI PEGASO A-COUGH PERC.

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