Nihon Kohden Upgrades NKV-550, Now First Ventilator Combining Non-Invasive Muscle Pressure Monitoring, AVM and Adjustable AdaptiveSync™ Manufactured in the U.S.
New features enable clinicians to see the full picture of a patient's breathing effort — non-invasively, at the bedside — giving them more tools to address both ventilator-induced and patient self-inflicted lung injury simultaneously.
Nihon Kohden America today announced three advanced capabilities now available on the NKV-550 Series Ventilator System. Non-invasive Muscle Pressure (Pmus) monitoring gives clinicians a continuous, real-time measurement of how hard a patient is working to breathe, without invasive interventions. Adaptive Ventilation Mode (AVM) continuously calculates and adjusts ventilator settings based on the patient's real-time lung mechanics, reducing the manual bedside adjustments that normally follow a patient from full ventilator support through weaning. And AdaptiveSync™ automatically synchronizes the ventilator to the patient's breathing effort, with sensitivity that's adjustable, not simply on or off, unlike comparable features on other platforms. Together, they help clinicians address two distinct sources of harm—injury from the ventilator itself (VILI) and injury from the patient's own breathing effort (P-SILI)—in a single integrated platform.
