Vapotherm’s Hi-VNI® Technology is a tool for can treating respiratory distress. Vapotherm does not practice medicine or provide medical services or advice, any clinical recommendations provided herein are solely those of the speakers. Practitioners should [...]
Being confined to an ICU bed is hard for many patients for even a couple of weeks, let alone for over one hundred days. Patient ambulation not only has the benefit of counteracting the harmful [...]
Clinicians admitting patients in respiratory distress traditionally have three categories of tools to relieve symptoms. There is oxygen therapy for low severity patients, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NiPPV) for moderate distress, and then mechanical ventilation [...]
High Velocity Nasal Insufflation (HVNI) delivered with Hi-VNI® Technology is mask-free noninvasive ventilation (NIV) for spontaneously breathing patients. It is a viable alternative to NiPPV and can relieve undifferentiated respiratory distress, including hypercapnia and hypoxemia.11. [...]
Whether it’s pneumonia, bronchiolitis, or other respiratory infections, secretion clearance is one of the keys to symptom relief. Rehydration of airway mucosa to promote mucociliary function helps with secretion clearance, and this can be effectively [...]
In November 2018, the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal edition published the results of a prospective, two-center, order-randomized cross-over study performed at two NICUs in the UK, designed to evaluate the performance [...]
Rethinking Ventilation—Do you always need pressure? The frequent-flyer COPDer comes into the hospital, dyspneic and tripoding and the respiratory therapist is readying the non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NiPPV)—this is a frequent sight for clinicians admitting [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Vapotherm’s request for a new category (QAV), and expanded indications for the latest version Precision Flow, the Precision Flow Hi-VNITM system. The indication now states this system [...]
For patients in respiratory distress, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NiPPV) has been the first-line approach for decades. It’s a respected standard of care, but not all patients can tolerate this mask-based therapy. Facial hair that [...]
