NAVA – a gamechanger for neonatal care in Slovakia
When using Getinge’s patented Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) with diaphragm monitoring (Edi) for the first time in 2021, it soon became clear to the neonatal team in the F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, that the solution would become a gamechanger for their treatment of premature babies. The first case for the F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital in Banska Bystrica using NAVA involved a tiny premature girl, born in the 22[nd] week, who developed severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD). “She was in such poor condition that we couldn’t