Dirk van Asseldonk (left) is a successful entrepreneur, especially interested in ideas at the intersection of technology, medicine and economics. He thinks it is important to do business in markets that really matter, such as a medical innovation that is life-saving.  He met Prof. Dr. med. Enk for the first time in 2007 because Dolphys developed a drug release implant, of which Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC)  in The Netherlands was a partner. Prof. Dr. med. Dietmar Enk, at the time anesthesiologist at MUMC, is responsible for several inventions. He wanted to be more involved in the development of his inventions and found a suitbale partner in Ventinova Medical (back then Dolphys). In 2008 Dietmar and Dirk started the further development of manual ventilator Ventrain.

Nomination Herman Wijffels Innovatie Prijs
In 2008 Dirk van Asseldonk was nominated for the Rabobank Herman Wijffels Innovatie Prijs with ActivJet, the precursor to Ventrain. This Dutch Herman Wijffels Innovation Prize aims for sustainable innovations.

Unique ventilation method FCV^® is presented by Prof. Dr. med. Dietmar Enk at Euroanaesthesia 2015.

Ventinova receives 1.9 million Euros funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
The development of mechanical ventilator Evone starts.

CE marking of Evone

Industry Symposium Euroanaesthesia 2017
Ventinova Medical organized a crowded Industry Symposium at Euroanaesthesia 2017 on the Update and new perspectives in airway management and mechanical ventilation.  Prof. Dr. Carin Hagberg, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston USA, Prof. Dr. Luciano Gattinoni, University of Goettingen, Germany and Prof. Dr. med. Dietmar Enk, University Hospital of Muenster, Germany, gave their vision on the subject.

First clinical in human use of Evone
First clinical in human use of Tritube

Evone is already used in more than 40 hospitals in 11 countries during a wide variety of surgeries.

Prof. Dr. med. Christian Byhahn, University Hospital Oldenburg, Germany is very proud to be the owner of ventilator Evone (left on the photo)

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Qatar: the first to introduce Evone in their daily clinical practice in the Middle East 
The anesthesiology team led by Prof. Dr. Marco Marcus achieved regional recognition for their fantastic work done, not only in clinic but even more in setting up an airway management training center, in which Evone with its FCV® technology and the associated ultra-thin Tritube play an important role. Doctors Nabil Shallik and Marcus Lance value the experienced surgical benefits of this “only ventilation appliance of its type”. Furthermore, they acknowledge that Evone may considerably reduce the number of lung complications related to conventional artificial ventilation. They state that “The technology has the potential to be used in various fields of surgery.”

Publication ‘Core topics in Airway management’ 
In the new edition of ‘core topics in Airway management’ both Ventrain and Evone are extensively mentioned: Chapter 18 is fully dedicated to Ventrain and Evone (Written by Kirstensen and Michiel de Wolf) . Further, our products are mentioned and explained in two others: Chapter 20, Front of neck access by a.o. Dietmar Enk, and chapter 23 on the pediatric airway.

Ventinova also continued withthe  webinars: In 2021 it was evident that due to the Covid-19 pandemic it was still essential to transfer knowledge digitally. Ventinova organized another 3 webinars in 2021 in which doctors shared their experiences.