Breathing in balance through Total Ventilation Solutions: Respironics Critical Care helps respiratory-impaired patients breathe easier
There's a secret in Carlsbad and its name is Respironics. Respironics focuses on the worldwide sleep and respiratory marketplaces. To date, the Company has 3,800 associates in 125 countries and continues to grow aggressively. Best known as the worldwide leader in the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, its obstructive sleep apnea therapy is a cornerstone of Respironics' business. While headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Penn., Respironics Critical Care is a business unit and manufacturing facility located in Carlsbad.
As a company that addresses sleep and respiratory challenges, Respironics is driven by a commitment to offset some daunting facts. The prevalence of respiratory diseases worldwide continues to increase. Current statistics show that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema?is now the fourth leading cause of death among Americans. Twenty million people in the United States suffer from asthma; seven million of these are children. One of every nine children will have been on a respiratory monitor by the time he or she is three.
To meet the needs of these growing populations, Respironics provides a broad range of respiratory solutions, from the pre-hospital emergency setting, to the hospital, and ultimately to the home. The company offers a comprehensive series of ventilators, asthma monitoring and management systems, oxygen delivery devices, cardiac and infant monitors, and respiratory gas analyzers to help manage patients with respiratory disorders through their lifetimes, from neonates to adults.
"In Respironics Critical Care, Total Ventilation Solutions is our platform offering products and programs to help treat, monitor and manage the respiratory-impaired patient in a variety of care environments," says Paul Woodring, president of Respironics Critical Care. "Our business unit's capabilities include invasive ventilation, noninvasive ventilation and respiratory gas monitoring, providing healthcare professionals with a comprehensive set of options to optimize treatment for their patients while helping to reduce the cost of care."
Respironics Critical Care's invasive ventilation technology is designed to provide powerful and reliable invasive solutions that optimize respiratory care from fragile neonates to adults. Invasive ventilation therapy requires the insertion of a tube into the patient's airway. This comprehensive product family is based on a high performance platform that offers versatile, easy-to-use functionality in sub-acute, critical care and long term acute care settings. This line's flagship brand, the Esprit? Critical Care Ventilator, recently released a communication option with the NICO? Respiratory Monitor which provides breath-by-breath information to clinicians. This is critical during the period when trials are conducted to wean the patient from the ventilator. The combination of information provided by the Esprit ventilator and the NICO monitor precisely tells the clinician how the patient is doing.
Around the world, noninvasive ventilation is being used more frequently and successfully than ever to treat patients with respiratory insufficiency and failure, and Respironics is leading the way. With noninvasive ventilation, suitable neonates through adults receive therapy through a mask instead of a tube inserted in their airway.
Whether it's Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) or bi-level positive pressure therapy, for these patients, noninvasive ventilation typically enhances overall comfort. The patient often has the ability to communicate with family and medical personnel, reducing isolation and increasing participation in their own care. Noninvasive ventilation can also help: avoid intubation; reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia; lower hospital costs; and reduce hospital length of stay.
"Historically, a respiratory-impaired patient may have been intubated because that was the only option available to deliver life-saving oxygen," explains Mr. Woodring. "Today, this patient may be a candidate to be treated noninvasively, not only by hospital personnel, but by emergency medical personnel."
Noninvasive ventilation often delivers relief quickly and the patient often feels better by the time the ambulance arrives at the hospital. More importantly, if emergency medical personnel are able to apply noninvasive ventilation, perhaps with Respironics' WhisperFlow? CPAP System, that provides hospital personnel with options when the patient arrives. Now clinicians are able to decide if the patient can continue with noninvasive therapy, such as Respironics' BiPAP? Vision? Noninvasive Ventilatory Support System, or if he or she requires invasive therapy with the Esprit? Critical Care Ventilator.
Respironics offers products throughout this process. With innovative products and programs, a top-notch direct sales force, world-class engineers, and customer-oriented clinical education and technical service support personnel, Respironics Critical Care won't be Carlsbad's biggest secret for long.
There's a secret in Carlsbad and its name is Respironics. Respironics focuses on the worldwide sleep and respiratory marketplaces. To date, the Company has 3,800 associates in 125 countries and continues to grow aggressively. Best known as the worldwide leader in the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, its obstructive sleep apnea therapy is a cornerstone of Respironics' business. While headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Penn., Respironics Critical Care is a business unit and manufacturing facility located in Carlsbad.
As a company that addresses sleep and respiratory challenges, Respironics is driven by a commitment to offset some daunting facts. The prevalence of respiratory diseases worldwide continues to increase. Current statistics show that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema?is now the fourth leading cause of death among Americans. Twenty million people in the United States suffer from asthma; seven million of these are children. One of every nine children will have been on a respiratory monitor by the time he or she is three.
To meet the needs of these growing populations, Respironics provides a broad range of respiratory solutions, from the pre-hospital emergency setting, to the hospital, and ultimately to the home. The company offers a comprehensive series of ventilators, asthma monitoring and management systems, oxygen delivery devices, cardiac and infant monitors, and respiratory gas analyzers to help manage patients with respiratory disorders through their lifetimes, from neonates to adults.
"In Respironics Critical Care, Total Ventilation Solutions is our platform offering products and programs to help treat, monitor and manage the respiratory-impaired patient in a variety of care environments," says Paul Woodring, president of Respironics Critical Care. "Our business unit's capabilities include invasive ventilation, noninvasive ventilation and respiratory gas monitoring, providing healthcare professionals with a comprehensive set of options to optimize treatment for their patients while helping to reduce the cost of care."
Respironics Critical Care's invasive ventilation technology is designed to provide powerful and reliable invasive solutions that optimize respiratory care from fragile neonates to adults. Invasive ventilation therapy requires the insertion of a tube into the patient's airway. This comprehensive product family is based on a high performance platform that offers versatile, easy-to-use functionality in sub-acute, critical care and long term acute care settings. This line's flagship brand, the Esprit? Critical Care Ventilator, recently released a communication option with the NICO? Respiratory Monitor which provides breath-by-breath information to clinicians. This is critical during the period when trials are conducted to wean the patient from the ventilator. The combination of information provided by the Esprit ventilator and the NICO monitor precisely tells the clinician how the patient is doing.
Around the world, noninvasive ventilation is being used more frequently and successfully than ever to treat patients with respiratory insufficiency and failure, and Respironics is leading the way. With noninvasive ventilation, suitable neonates through adults receive therapy through a mask instead of a tube inserted in their airway.
Whether it's Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) or bi-level positive pressure therapy, for these patients, noninvasive ventilation typically enhances overall comfort. The patient often has the ability to communicate with family and medical personnel, reducing isolation and increasing participation in their own care. Noninvasive ventilation can also help: avoid intubation; reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia; lower hospital costs; and reduce hospital length of stay.
"Historically, a respiratory-impaired patient may have been intubated because that was the only option available to deliver life-saving oxygen," explains Mr. Woodring. "Today, this patient may be a candidate to be treated noninvasively, not only by hospital personnel, but by emergency medical personnel."
Noninvasive ventilation often delivers relief quickly and the patient often feels better by the time the ambulance arrives at the hospital. More importantly, if emergency medical personnel are able to apply noninvasive ventilation, perhaps with Respironics' WhisperFlow? CPAP System, that provides hospital personnel with options when the patient arrives. Now clinicians are able to decide if the patient can continue with noninvasive therapy, such as Respironics' BiPAP? Vision? Noninvasive Ventilatory Support System, or if he or she requires invasive therapy with the Esprit? Critical Care Ventilator.
Respironics offers products throughout this process. With innovative products and programs, a top-notch direct sales force, world-class engineers, and customer-oriented clinical education and technical service support personnel, Respironics Critical Care won't be Carlsbad's biggest secret for long.