Acute Care & Monitoring Partners

The European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) promotes the delivery of the highest quality of care to critically ill children throughout Europe. Medtronic Respiratory & Monitoring Solutions EMEA is proud to be a partner of ESPNIC through various activities: 

• Medtronic Research Grant dedicated to studies of clinical outcomes in PICU/NICU using advacned monitoring techniques (scuh as NRS). ESPNIC 2019.
• Financial and in-kind support for ESPNIC educational events (ex. Summer and Winter schools)
• Preparation of educational webinars and activities supporting ESPNIC's educational agenda
• Support for ESPNIC congresses as a sponsor

If you would like to apply for the ESPNIC - Medtronic Research Grant please click here for more information. 

#PatientSafetyInOurHands

Tiny Tickers is a small national charity that works to improve the chances of babies born with a serious heart condition. Founded in 1999 by world-renowned fetal cardiologist Dr Helena Gardiner, who realised many of the babies she was caring for could have been helped earlier.

A baby is born with a serious heart condition every two hours in the UK and despite congenital heart disease being one of the biggest killers of infants in the UK, only around half of congenital heart defects are picked up during routine prenatal scanning.

It is absolutely vital that we provide a safety net for the 1,000 babies each year that leave hospital with their heart defect undetected. 

Sedate UK is an organisation which the mission to establish and promote the skills and competencies necessary for non-anaesthetist healthcare practitioners to administer sedation for diagnostic, interventional and surgical procedures.

They focus on two key areas:

• Sedation training for non-anaesthetists – promoting the skills and competencies for non-anaesthetist practitioners to administer minimal to moderate sedation, with the use of Microstream™ Capnography monitoring. 
• Compliance readiness in sedation practice – assisting clinicians and departments to be compliant with latest guidelines.

Medtronic have partnered with Sedate UK to achieve our common mission of establishing safe sedation practice. We work with Healthcare providers to ensure patient safety in procedural sedation. With the use of Capnography monitoring clinicians can detect stop in respiration, obstruction to airway and can safely tailor the sedation level to ensure the best patient outcome.

If you would like to know more about Sedate UK or their ‘Safe Sedation’ course, recognised by the Royal College of Anaesthetists and by the Royal College of Nursing, please click here.