Minami Saito
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About
Minami Saito is a clinical anesthesiologist and researcher whose work focuses on optimizing mechanical ventilation strategies during surgery, particularly for high-risk patient populations. Her primary research areas include lung-protective ventilation, dead space physiology, and the effects of inverse ratio ventilation in the operating room. Dr. Saito’s major contributions center on demonstrating the lung-protective properties of expiratory flow-initiated pressure-controlled inverse ratio ventilation (EF-initiated PC-IRV), showing in a randomized controlled trial that this mode can reduce physiological dead space compared to conventional volume-controlled ventilation. She has further advanced understanding of ventilation-perfusion mismatch by analyzing changes in dead space components during pressure-controlled inverse ratio ventilation. Her work is especially notable for addressing the unique challenges of ventilating obese patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery, where she investigated how volume-targeted pressure-controlled inverse ratio ventilation can improve functional residual capacity during pneumoperitoneum. With her most-cited papers accumulating over a dozen citations in the specialized field of intraoperative ventilation, Dr. Saito is establishing herself as a careful investigator of ventilator strategies that may improve outcomes for surgical patients with compromised respiratory mechanics.
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