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Maria Laura Vega Pittao

Adjunct professor

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Research fellow

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences

Research

Keywords: Invasive mechanical ventilation Noninvasive mechanical ventilation HFNC Advanced ventilatory monitoring Gas exchange physiology Copd OHS Neuromuscular diseases Sleep medicine

Respiratory physiology and management of acute respiratory failure: main research areas include invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, high-flow nasal cannula therapy (HFNC). 

Advanced respiratory monitoring: with a focus on esophageal pressure measurement for the assessment of respiratory mechanics and patient-ventilator interaction, waveform analysis for the detection of patient-ventilator asynchronies during mechanical ventilation, transcutaneous CO₂ monitoring, and comprehensive non-invasive monitoring of respiratory function in both acute and chronic settings.

Management of chronic respiratory failure: with particular focus on optimising home non-invasive mechanical ventilation in high-impact conditions such as COPD, obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), and neuromuscular diseases.

Sleep medicine: focusing on sleep-disordered breathing and its systemic impact in chronic respiratory diseases.

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