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Michelle Ramsay
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Michelle is a newly appointed consultant at the Lane Fox Unit, St. Thomas’ Hospital specialising in home mechanical ventilation in chronic respiratory failure. Her specialist interest is in non-invasive ventilation failure and ventilating neuromuscular disease.
Michelle has completed a PhD in Respiratory Physiology at King’s College London. The focus of her research is in patient ventilator interaction and non-invasive ventilation. The main interventional study she is undertaking involves a randomised controlled trial to determine the utility of using surface parasternal electromyography to correct for patient ventilator asynchrony during the set up of non-invasive ventilation in chronic respiratory failure. Her research has been funded by the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.
Michelle has recently published work related to this in Thorax, Ramsay M, Mandal S, Suh E-S et al. Parasternal electromyography to determine the relationship between patient ventilator asynchrony and nocturnal gas exchange during home mechanical ventilation set up. Thorax. 2015 Oct;70(10):946-52.
Other publications include:
1)Ramsay M, Hart N. Current opinions on non-invasive ventilation as a treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Curr Opin Pulm Med 2013 Nov;19(6):626-30
2)Vrijsen B, Chatwin M, Contal O, et al. Hot Topics in Noninvasive Ventilation: Report of a Working Group at the International Symposium on Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Leuven, Belgium. Respir Care. 2015 Sep;60(9):1337-62
3)Chapter on Diseases of the Thoracic Cage and Respiratory Muscles, Clinical Respiratory Medicine (4th Edition, Elsevier publications, Philadelphia, 2012).
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