I am delighted to share our latest publication in European Heart Journal – Imaging Methods and Practice.
This feasibility study in healthy volunteers evaluates whether our newly developed Ventilation Navigator software application, created in collaboration with Cranfield University, can deliver controlled ventilation by measuring end-tidal CO2 against capillary blood gas values, including CO2 and pH.
This proof-of-concept work is an important step towards implementing controlled hyperventilation to assess coronary vasoreactivity in patients with angina and no obstructive coronary arteries — an important and still underdiagnosed condition within the angina population.
I am very grateful to all co-authors and collaborators who contributed to this work, including our University of Buckingham medical students Nerea and Barbara, Ellie from the cath lab team, my PhD student Qi from Cranfield University, Ken from Oxford, and the wider DCC team — especially Nikolaos for his invaluable input in developing the protocol.
It is a small study, but one that reflects meaningful multidisciplinary collaboration — and one we can all be proud of.