Breath-Care
Enosim developed the ASTRON, a real-time monitoring and identification breath analysis system for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP).

Ventilator-associated pneumonia refers to a bacterial lung infection in intensive care units(ICU), and the patients have been treated with a respirator for more than 48 hours. VAP is the most common nosocomial infection in ICU, and the rate of infection is about 7 to 14%. The mortality rate can reach from 35 to 90%. According to the US study, the additional medical expenses is about US$ 40,000 (about NT$1,280,000). The current species diagnosis relies on the experience of clinical physicians . And the sputum culture to identify bacterium can only get the sucess rate about 60% after 3 to 5 days.

In ICU, there is a umment medical need for the rapid VAP identification. In Taiwan, the number of people in the ICU has increased by 2.4 times in past ten years. However, the patient who leaving rate from respiratory is only 70%, the rate of demanding is reached 142%. The cost as reached NT$4.2 billion.