The 4th annual “Respiratory Days” conference will take place at Bumbalka, Labská nr. Špindlerův Mlýn, Krkonoše Mountains, on September 9-11, 2015 (Wednesday to Friday). All topics related to respiratory care and research in respiratory techniques and medicine are welcome.

If you consider an active participation (i.e. having a presentation or a lecture), please contact any member of our team by June 15, 2015.

The last year, the invited lectures were aimed at mechanical ventilation during anesthesia and at physiological effects of mechanical ventilation. In 2015, the two invited lectures will be aimed at practical aspects of mechanical ventilation in neonates (including HFJV) and ventilatory strategies in adults with ARDS (including HFOV).

Attendance at the conference including accommodation and food is free of charge if you deal with respiratory care or research in this field; otherwise, a conference fee of CZK 2 150.– applies (includes the accommodation, food, the book of proceedings, social events and all the conference services).

Here are the proceedings from the last Respiratory Days in 2014: Proceedings-Respiratory-Days-2014.

(For members of FBMI CTU only: The conference immediately precedes the BioŠrot and ParaŠrot training courses starting on Saturday, Sep 12, 2015.)

Our NVT members Barbora Hřibalova and Petr Kudrna won the second prize at the conference POSTER 2015, section “Biomedical Engineering”.

The name of the winning contribution is “The effect of orifice plate used as a flow meter on elimination of carbon dioxide in high frequency ventilation”.

Congratulations!

Invited lecture:

The path between an idea to success

by

Tom Bachman
Lake Arrowhead, California, USA

Goals:

• Introduce a method to evaluate an idea and understand the barriers to success
• Provide an example in the context of a biomedical technology (automatic control of the inspired oxygen of sick premature infants)

The lecture will be given on May 27, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.
ČVUT FBMI, nám. Sítná 3105, Kladno

Congratulations to Markéta Masopustová!

Markéta won the IEEE award for the best article at Young Biomedical Engineers and Researchers Conference (YBERC 2014) held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. The article dealt with Electrical Impedance Tomography in Respiratory Care and was created by Markéta Masopustová, Vladimír Sobota, Zuzana Marešová, Jakub Ráfl and Martin Rožánek.

A conference on research in respiratory care will be held at Bumbálka in Špindlerův Mlýn, Krkonoše, on September 10–12, 2014.

Advances in research on conventional and unconventional mechanical ventilation.

Invited lectures on special topics: Ventilation during anaesthesia, Mechanical ventilation in neonates.

Social program and outdoor activities included.

Detailed program is presented here.

The final proceedings are presented here.

The conference is supported by grant SVK 52/14/F7. There is not a participation fee. Accommodation and food is provided free of charge. Registration is sctrictly required (by e-mail to rozanek@fbmi.cvut.cz). A short abstract is required before the final program is agreed (by e-mail to petr.kudrna@fbmi.cvut.cz).

See you at Bumbalka soon!!!
NVT

Karel will give a lecture dealing with High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation and usage of Electrical Impedance Tomography in respiratory care at Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia, on April 30, 2014. Everybody is welcome!

The details are at the UNAB webpage here.

Karel Roubík was appointed a full professor of electronics and medical devices by the President of the Czech Republic on Feb 21, 2014 in Karolinum, Prague.

Congratulations!

Odborná konference zaměřená na novinky a prezentaci výsledků výzkumných projektů v oblasti konvenční i nekonvenční umělé plicní ventilace konané 4.-6. září 2013 v Přední Labské u Špindlerova Mlýna.

Ke stažení: Sborník abstraktů – Abstract book (in Czech Language)

Vladimír Sobota and Jan Suchomel from our respiratory research team (www.ventilation.cz) were awarded for their paper “Monitorin of Pulmonary Embolism using Electrical Impedance Tomography: a Case Study” at the IEEE International Conference E-Health and Bioengineering, Iasi, Romania. Vláďa was mentioned as The Young Researcher.

Congratulations!

A PostDoc Position…

There is a unique opportunity to participate in our reasearch team on respiratory care research/Health Technology Assessment applied to medical devices as a postdoc. The position and the postdoc’s salary is sponsored by a research grant from ESF. The information about the offer is published here.

The application period ends December 2, 2013

I’am looking forward to our future cooperation!
Karel

Please, share this offer with your colleagues and friends. THX.