Weighing approximately 10 lbs and providing adjustable levels of treatment intensity, International Biophysics Corp’s AffloVest is a new portable, battery-operated high frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) vest. Users can tailor treatments, with settings that provide chest wall oscillation treatment on both the front and back of the vest. The AffloVest is available in adult and child sizes and requires a physician’s prescription. 888-711-1145; www.biophysicscorp.com
New from Neotech Products, the Curved Sucker XL Oral and Nasal Suction Device is designed with a soft, curved large bore suction tip that’s more anatomically correct for oral suctioning. While other hard plastic products may be harmful to the patient’s teeth and can crack, the Curved Sucker’s softer, gentler material may help prevent mouth trauma for patients who may bite down hard onto the suction device. 800-966-0500; www.neotechproducts.com
The inCourage Airway Clearance Therapy from RespirTech is now 30% quieter than before and even easier to use. Convenient new features combined with trusted technology deliver user-friendly therapy patients can trust. The inCourage System is designed for simple, safe, and effective airway secretion clearance, and is the only vest therapy to use active air venting to allow for easy, deep breaths during therapy. It is also the only system providing triangle wave air pulses, demonstrated to improve airway secretion clearance by as much as 20% over sine wave vest therapy systems. 800-793-1261; www.respirtech.com
The Monarch Airway Clearance System from Hill-Rom is an HFCWO therapeutic device with revolutionary new mobile technology. The Monarch System uses pulmonary oscillating discs (PODs) to generate targeted kinetic energy to the lungs. This oscillation of the airways helps to thin mucus and increase airflow, mobilizing secretions from the airways while patients go about their day, opening a new world of possibilities in airway clearance. 800-445-3730; www.hill-rom.com
The SmartVest SQL from Electromed Inc uses high frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO), a proven clinical therapy that helps to clear the lungs of excess mucus, reducing the risk of respiratory infections. The SQL is significantly smaller, quieter and lighter than previous versions. The system features enhanced generator programmability and adjustable Ramp, a patented single-hose design, and an open system with active inflate-active deflate, which provides a more comfortable therapy experience by allowing patients to take deep breaths and breathe more easily without feeling restricted. The SQL carries a lifetime warranty in the home care market. 800-462-1045; www.smartvest.com
Hill-Rom offers the MetaNeb System, a unique 3-in-1 therapy system that treats and prevents atelectasis by providing lung expansion, secretion mobilization and aerosol delivery of medication. It features a controller, stand, and disposable circuit. The system delivers a MetaTherapy treatment that combines both lung expansion and secretion clearance therapies along with aerosol. The system, which is a silver winner of the 2014 Medical Design Excellence Award, allows the user to easily adjust flow, pressure, and percussive rates during therapy. 800-445-3730; www.hill-rom.com
VOCSN Touch Button Cough therapy, from Ventec Life Systems, is activated with the touch of a button allowing patients to use the same circuit for ventilation and cough. 844-MY-VOCSN (844-698-6276); www.venteclife.com
Available from Seoil Pacific Corp, the ComfortCough Series — which is a cough stimulating device, a secretion clearance device, and a mechanical in-exsufflator — is for patients who can’t clear secretions by themselves due to various conditions such as MD, spinal cord injury, ALS, and more. As the device stimulates natural cough by shifting positive pressure to negative pressure rapidly, patients can receive therapy without pain. +82 (2) 325-2106; www.comfortcough.com
The Pegaso Cough from Dima Italia has been designed for patients with impaired coughing abilities. This noninvasive method of secretion removal is well tolerated and easy to apply in a critical care setting and at home. The Pegaso Cough combines long-standing experience and reliability with innovative features including auto-adaptive technology and the possibility of SpO2 plus pulse monitoring. +39.051.56.88.57
www.dimaitalia.com
