Techres Lab

Oggi è stato il mio ultimo giorno al Politecnico di Milano. Se penso che la prima volta che ho varcato la soglia del rettorato era il lontano settembre 2015, oltre a sentirmi un po' vecchia, non posso che guardarmi indietro e sentirmi incredibilmente grata. Ho sempre visto il Poli come la mia "Hogwarts": un posto che non è solo una scuola, ma anche un po' casa. Il primo GRAZIE va quindi a chi, tra quei banchi di studentessa universitaria, è stato più di un amico, è stato casa. Il Poli mi ha dato una seconda famiglia e gli amici di una vita e già solo per questo ri-varcherei quella soglia mille volte ancora. Da marzo 2020 ho fatto poi il mio ingresso al Techres Lab e beh, negli ultimi 4 anni non ho vissuto un dottorato, ma un'avventura. Safer è stato il "mio bimbo": è stato molto più che un semplice percorso accademico, è stato l'avventura di una vita e il lavoro di una squadra, un gruppo di giovani (e non, vedi Raffaele Dellacà) animati dalla passione e dalla voglia di fare qualcosa di innovativo, di utile, di "vero". Oggi prima di chiudere alle mie spalle la porta del laboratorio, ho dato un ultimo sguardo al nostro prototipo e ho sentito tutta la forza e la passione che il team Safer ha lasciato racchiuso tra quelle pareti di plastica e lamiera. Una volta mi è stato detto che sono una ragazza fortunata. Non credo nella fortuna intesa come fato o destino, ma credo nella fortuna degli incontri, nella luce delle persone. E per questo sì, lo confermo, sono una ragazza proprio fortunata: il secondo, ma non per importanza, GRAZIE va a tutti coloro che sono stati e sono parte "del lab": da ognuno di voi ho imparato qualcosa, con ognuno di voi ho condiviso tanto. Grazie Poli per avermi regalato la Magia. A presto. #polimi #techres #phd

We are pleased to share with you that on December 11th three of our students succesfully defended their Master thesis graduating as Biomedical Engineers at Politecnico di Milano. Raffaella Salama worked on the development of a system to better understand the working principle and response of gas sensors for electronic noses, defending her thesis entitled "Dielectric excitation of SMOX gas sensors for novel breath analysis systems"; Matteo Mentasti developed a novel device to measure and quantify the pollution levels in Neonatal Intensive Care Units and in baby strollers, successfully defending his thesis entitled "Development of a Novel Device to Assess Interventions to Reduce Pollution Exposure in Infants"; Davide Zoni worked on a setup to assess the impact of bedding materials to reduce neonate's carbon dioxide rebreathing, defending his thesis entitled "Assessing the impact of bedding material on infant breathing: an in vitro study". Thank you to Emanuele Zanni and Chiara Veneroni, who supervised these amazing students during their research path. Wishing all three of you the very best for a bright and successful future!!! Raffaele Dellacà #techres #enose #neonates #polimi #graduation

On Saturday 7th December, prof. Raffaele Dellacà had the opportunity to participate to the conference "Il Progetto THE - Elba: implementazione sostenibile della telemedicina per l'integrazione delle cure pneumologiche ospedaliere e territoriali". Professor held a talk on Forced Oscillation Technique (FOT), a non-invasive procedure to monitor lung's status in an easy and rapid way. Thank you for this networking opportunity, see you soon! #oscillometry #techres #ElbaSalute

Gli insufflatori sono strumenti innovativi in campo chirurgico, che grazie a gas pressurizzato creano una cavità temporanea nel corpo dei pazienti, fornendo allo specialista lo spazio per la procedura e riducendo così la necessità di ampie incisioni su addome e torace. La tecnologia attuale presenta alcune limitazioni. Il nuovo concetto di insufflazione intelligente a turbina, sviluppato e brevettato dal Politecnico di Milano e dall'Erasmus MC, adatta continuamente la pressione di insufflazione alle condizioni del paziente e al suo respiro, migliorando le condizioni operative per il chirurgo e gli esiti per il paziente. L’obiettivo della partnership pubblico-privata con Spatium Medical e IDE Group è sviluppare e industrializzare queste tecnologie e avviare la prima sperimentazione clinica del nuovo insufflatore. Un traguardo raggiunto con la prima valutazione su un paziente durante un intervento chirurgico presso l'Erasmus Medical Center. --- Insufflators are innovative instruments in surgery that create a temporary cavity in the bodies of patients through pressurised gas. This provides the surgeon with the necessary space for the procedure, and limiting the need for large incisions in the abdomen and chest. Current technology has some limitations. The new concept of intelligent turbine insufflation, developed and patented by the Politecnico di Milano and the Erasmus MC Medical Centre, continuously adapts the insufflation pressure to the condition and breathing of the patient, improving operating conditions for the surgeon and outcomes for the patient. The aim of the public-private partnership with Spatium Medical and IDE Group is to develop and industrialise these technologies, and to launch the first clinical trial of the new insufflator. This important milestone was achieved with the first evaluation of a patient during surgery at the Erasmus Medical Centre. #PolimiResearch

The collaboration between TechRes Lab and Amsterdam UMC goes on! Thanks to this fruitful partnership, we had the opportunity to keep with us Ilaria Girimonte as a Politecnico PhD student. Ilaria, with Ruud and Fabio, will be part of the #NWO project focused on the research about new non-invasive ways to synchronize mechanical ventilation with spontaneous respiratory effort in infants. This week, it was a pleasure for us to host the Amsterdam team here in Milan, to work together and plan the next steps. See you soon! #mechanicalventilation #NWO #collaboration

We are proud to share a recent article published by Agipress, which officially presents the new technology to help surgeons during endoscopy resulting from the collaboration between our laboratory and Erasmus MC. This newly developed device is a smart "insufflator", which creates a temporary cavity in the patient's body through the application of pressurized gas, providing the surgeon with the necessary space to perform the surgical procedure from within the body, thereby reducing the need for large incisions on the abdomen and chest. Providing this new concept of smart insufflation, the device continuously adjusts the insufflation pressure according to the patient's condition and breathing, improving operating conditions for the surgeon and outcomes for the patient. We are so proud of this collaboration and patent, that will really provide strong benefits in endoscopic procedures! Raffaele Dellacà Emanuele Ghilotti Frank Sterke Willem van Weteringen Amber de Jong John Vlot #endoscopy #insufflation #turbine

We are proud to share with you that on 10th October our Master Thesis students Ilaria Girimonte, Anna Gianfranceschi and Lucia Giuffrida successfully graduated in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. In particular, Ilaria defended her thesis entitled "A Novel Neonatal Ventilation System Providing Non-Invasive Respiratory Support Synchronous to Transcutaneous Diaphragm Electromyography", which was focused on the development of a novel algorithm for the real-time signal processing of transcutaneous EMG of the diaphragm to detect spontaneous breathing in infants. Her research project was held in collaboration with our Amsterdam UMC colleagues Ruud van Leuteren and Fabio Blom. Anna and Lucia defended their thesis entitled "Preliminary Study on MOS Sensor Conditioning and Potential Poisoning Materials for the Development of an Electronic Nose for Pneumonia Etiology Detection", which was focused on the analysis of E-Nose sensors for pneumonia detection. Their project was made in collaboration with Laboratorio Olfattometrico @ PoliMI. Congratulations to these three young Biomedical Engineers, wishing them the best for their future careers!!! #polimi #graduation #masterthesis #biomed

This week our PhD students Elena Barzanti and Emanuele Zanni attended the XLIII GNB Annual School for Biomedical Engineers in Bressanone. Bressanone Annual summer school, which is organized by Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria, is a unique occasion for our young researchers to meet in person and deepen their knowledge on innovative biomedical technologies, while spending some time all together! Well done guys! #biomedicalengineer #gnb #annualschool

We are happy to share a special achievement for us! On Thursday 28th July Ing. Davide Bizzotto obtained his PhD Degree cum laude at Politecnico di Milano, after defending his thesis entitled "Methods and Technologies for Advanced Respiratory Support Modalities". We would like to thank MD Daniele De Luca (MD, PhD, MHBA), prof. Simona Ferrante and prof. Ramon Farre for being part of this stimulting discussion commission. Davide has been a milestone in our laboratory, giving his major contribution in the research conducted on novel technologies to diagnose respiratory system pathologies through Forced Oscillation Technique. It is the end of an incredible journey for him, as well as the start of a brilliant career which will proceed in the oscillometry field. Thank you for sharing with us your passion and your knowledge! See you soon. #mechanicalventilation #fot #oscillometry #phd

We are happy to share with you that two of our Master Thesis students obtained their degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano on Tuesday 16th July! We would like to thank both of them for their contributions in two different research projects involving newborns respiratory care, held in our laboratory: Giulia Saudelli with her thesis entitled "Development of a Novel Customized Humidification System for a Non-Invasive Neonatal Respiratory Support Device addressing Low-Resource Settings" developed a humidification system for SAFER, our CPAP respiratory support device specifically designed to treat newborns in low-resource settings; Luca Andriotto with his thesis entitled "Simulating Aeration at Birth: Building an Open-Source Newborn Lung Model" developed a first computational morphometric model of premature newborns, simulating breathing in time domain. It was a pleasure to share with you these research paths, both from a technical perspective and a personal one! Good luck for your future brilliant careers! #polimi #graduation #biomed