Improve Pulmonary
Outcomes
Challenges
- Mechanical ventilation complications
- Lung overdistension, barotrauma, lung collapse, and blood desaturation
- Significant costs to health care system
Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV) in the USA
IMV represents a high and mortality group of patients that are associated with significant costs to the healthcare system.
Cost difference
-
3,109
cases
per 100.000 adults
received IMV in 2009 (1) -
600-1,500
USD
Hospital cost increment
by one IMV day (2) -
2,093
USD
Cost saving per patient
after implementation of CLRT (3)

Solution
Multicare X‘s frame-based lateral tilt with programmable Automatic Lateral Therapy

Automatic Lateral Therapy with Electric Impedance Tomography
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Automatic Lateral Therapy (ALT)
Lateral tilt with adequate PEEP can control ventilation distribution and trigger lung opening
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Electric impedance tomography
Provides real-time visualization of patients‘ mechanical ventilation
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Benefits of Alt guided by Alt
- Individualized
- Timely
- Continuous
- Targeted
- Careful
- Radiation-free
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