Christer Sinderby Dr.Med Sci/PhD
Staff Scientist, Assistant Professor
Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Department of Critical Care Medicine
St-Michael’s Hospital
Department of Medicine
University of Toronto, Canada

Research Interests

• Respiratory physiology
• Diaphragm Electrical Activity (EAdi)
• Neural control of mechanical ventilation
• Patient-ventilator interaction
• Lung protection
• Extra-pulmonary dead space elimination for control of CO2 and pH during assisted ventilation.

Some achievements

• Developing, validating and introducing computerized signal processing and analysis methods for EAdi (Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002; 166:518-624)
• Inventing, developing, and introducing Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist (NAVA) (Nature Med. 1999; 5: 1433-1436)
• Introducing new chapters on neural monitoring of patient-ventilator interaction and NAVA in major clinical textbooks e.g. Principles and Practice and Principles of mechanical ventilation (editor M Tobin), Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine (Eds J-L Vincent, JB Hall)

For more information on Neural Monitoring and Control of Mechanical Ventilation visit www.VentQuest.ca