Providing
Airway Secretion Clearance Treatment for Patients in Hospitals
and Clinics
As patient
care teams, RTs, nurses, and physicians strive to speed
patients to recovery and safe discharge, ridding lungs
of retained secretions is a critical
factor in attaining long-term lung health.
TheSmartVest® Airway
Clearance System provides effective High Frequency
Chest Wall Oscillation (HFCWO), also known as High
Frequency Chest Compression (HFCC), to assist in the
airway secretion clearance treatment for a wide variety
of medical conditions, from post-surgery atelectasis
to chronic neuromuscular diseases.
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sizes available
for HomeCare and
Institutional use.
The SmartVest® and SmartVest
Wrap® Provide
airway clearance therapy that supports health care
teams striving to
Foster
patient recovery in ICU settings
Maximize
convenience of use
Provide
continuity of care from Hospital to Home
what
clinicians like most about The SmartVest® and SmartVest
Wrap®
Full
coverage pulsation
Convenience
Ease
of operation
Patient
comfort—when patients are able to tolerate a vest system
more comfortably, they are more likely to use it and
to benefit from consistent use
Single-hose
design and reversibility of the SmartVest
Wrap® allow
patient access from either side of the bed
No
upward “creep” is experienced - with Soft Start™ technology the SmartVest® inflates gradually, following the contours of the chest
HomeCare
model can be ordered for patients upon discharge
Reduces
clinicians’ potential for repetitive motion injuries
Eliminates
concerns associated with manual Chest Physiotherapy
(CPT) regarding patient positioning in the Trendelenburg
position and technique variance
Benefits
of HFCWO Treatments delivered by the SmartVest® and SmartVest
Wrap® Include
Reduction
in lung infections, such as pneumonia (1,
2)
Reduction
in hospitalizations (1, 2)
Reduction
in expensive medications (1,
2)
Cost-effectiveness by reducing the secondary complications associated
with impaired mucus transport (1,
2)
1
Ohnsorg F. A Cost Analysis of High-Frequency Chest Wall
Oscillation in Cystic Fibrosis. AM J Respir and Crit
Care Med 1994; 149(4): A669
2 Pliophlys,
AV, Lewis S, Kasnicke I. Pulmonary vest therapy
in pediatric long-term care. Journal of the American
Medical Director’s Association 2002 Sep-Oct; 3
(5): 318-321.
Additional features
and services
Multiple
sizes to accommodate patient growth
Fully
supported patient and clinician services
Comprehensive
reimbursement services
Toll-free support HELPLINE
Single
Patient Use SmartVest® and SmartVest
Wrap® available
in multiple
sizes for in-patient use
