Category: Ventilator

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Global mechanical ventilator market likely reached $3.1 B in 2020

ResearchAndMarket.com has released a report indicating that the global ventilator market likely hit U.S. $3.1 billion in 2020. The Ireland-based firm reported that this represented an increase over a global market of $1.1 billion for 2018.

The market-research company reported that prior to the COVID outbreak, the global market for mechanical ventilators was growing at a 7.1 percent rate. The 2020 pandemic ratcheted that growth up to 172 percent – which obviously will drop significantly. Still, the report anticipates future growth at a rate of over 15 percent in coming years – more than double the pre-COVID rate.

One of the more interesting aspects of the study was the fact that the disruption of the ventilator market caused by the COVID pandemic created opportunities for new players in the ventilator manufacturing segment – with Philips Respironics , ResMed, and Dragerwerks significantly increasing their market share during the 2020 ventilator shortage.

You can read a summary of the report at www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/5094112/global-ventilator-market-analysis-and-forecast.

As more facilities add ventilator care, or expand their existing ventilator ward, LinQvue REA should be part of those plans. LinQvue® Respiratory Event Alert is a wireless real-time ventilator alarm system that displays your ventilator alarms on video monitors and mobile escalation devices to simplify prioritizing patient care.

Best of all – LinQvue works with every brand of ventilator! The in-room LinQvue wireless transmitter connects to the ventilator using a standard nurse-call cable, making LinQvue the universal wireless ventilator alarm solution. No matter which brand of ventilator you’re looking to use, LinQvue will integrate seamlessly.

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Alarm fatigue a growing issue – LinQvue helps solve it

A recent article on the online portal for RT Magazine illustrates the growing issue of alarm fatigue in the respiratory care field.

The article quotes Karen LaRoché, a clinical specialist at MultiCare Health Systems in Puyallup, Wash.: “Monitor fatigue is real, and it’s super dangerous.”

Dave Crotwell, director of Respiratory Care Services at Seattle Children’s Hospital, explained alarm fatigue this way: “(Respiratory Technicians) naturally get frustrated and fatigued when responding to so many alarms that are not real, because either the settings or alarm protocols are not appropriate. The signal-to-noise ratio is too high.”

Part of the problem is the increasingly powerful options available on modern ventilators – but Crotwell points out that increasing power can present challenges as well as benefits.

“As we add new devices, and attach them to patients, we’re layering alarms on top of one another.”

While the article interviews several manufacturer representatives who discuss their attempts to provide more meaningful control over alarm settings on the ventilators themselves as a method to cut down on the number of non-useful alarms, the LinQvue® Respiratory Event Alert wireless ventilator alarm system can also be an important part of an alarm fatigue solution.

LinQvue® REA is a real-time ventilator alarm system that displays alarms on video monitors and mobile escalation devices to simplify prioritizing patient care. The system presents a centralized, real-time visual overview of all ventilator patients in a ward on one or more widescreen video monitors near a nurse station or other high-visibility location.

There are no blaring alarms outside patient rooms with LinQvue REA®. The centralized audio alerts from the video displays gain staff attention with a pleasant but unique tone that reduces alarm fatigue in both staff and patients.

The LinQvue system uses its proprietary technology to prioritize patient care by presenting ventilator alarms in an ordered array – with the oldest alarms given highest visual placement.

And administrators will appreciate the fact that the LinQvue system maintains its own activity logs – which are in many cases easier to read and offer more distilled information than the native logs on a ventilator.

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New Trilogy Evo ventilator designed for transitions

Philips Respironics has introduced its latest portable ventilator, the Trilogy Evo. Designed to follow patients when they move from one healthcare setting to another , or from a facility to home, the Trilogy Evo provides the same level of reliability expected in a hospital but with the flexibilty of a personal ventilator.

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Featuring a 10-hour battery life, the Trilogy Evo features the same SpO2, EtCO2 and advanced respiratory mechanics monitoring capabilities found in other Trilogy ventilators. The  8” touchscreen uses patient-friendly displays to support easy set-up and setting modification. It offers new, on-screen Help and Alarm guidance, and user-friendly universal names for most ventilation modes.

Digital Auto-Trak provides an automated breath triggering and cycling algorithm that adjusts to the patient’s natural breathing patterns. It assists with ventilator to patient synchrony and comfort without manual adjustments.

To learn more about the Trilogy Evo, visit the Philips Respironics web site at www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/resource-catalog/landing/trilogy-evo.