At the Congress of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA), Euroanaesthesia 2007, in Munich, the ESA presented the first “Dräger Award for Intensive Care Medicine.”
The Scientific Programme Committee of the ESA, judging the prize, recognised the group for its research under the direction of Dr Torsten Schreiber. The related article was entitled: Increased susceptibility to ventilator-associated lung injury persists after clinical recovery from experimental endotoxemia.
Dr Schreiber’s group studied the factors influencing the damaging effects of artificial ventilation. The researchers showed that even after recovery from a transient period of endotoxemia, susceptibility to the deleterious effects of increasing tidal volumes increases over time. This suggests that lower tidal volumes, already known to protect patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are also of benefit after full clinical recovery from the inflammatory response.
