There’s a new name in the study of untreated sleep apnea and the high-tech effort to identify and treat tens of millions of Americans afflicted by it: Primasun. Translating to “first light,” Primasun is the moniker for a joint venture formed in 2018 by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet focused […]
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Free Respiratory Care Webinars from Breas
Breas knows this year has been especially hard for the respiratory care community. As a special thank you, they are offering this free webinar series to help you keep up to date with your CEU credits. Each webinar is tailor-made for respiratory professionals and can earn you or your colleagues […]
New Device for Putting on Sterile Gloves Automatically
Texas Medical Technology launched its iNitrile disposable glove dispenser to combat infections in businesses and organizations. The machine utilizes an automated process to help organizations streamline tedious daily tasks, minimize waste, and improve cost-efficiency. Infections can often come from places people seldom consider, and with COVID-19, simply washing your hands or […]
Building a Mental Health Dream Team for Athletes (How Sleep Screening a Team Can Save Lives)
By Brendan Duffy, CCSH, RPSGT From the song and album “The Stranger” (1977)….Billy Joel Jeret Peterson, known to most as “Speedy” Peterson, was an American three-time Olympian and silver medal aerial skier. He tragically took his own life in 2011 via a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Just a year after his […]
Masimo Releases softFlow High-Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy
Masimo announced the U.S. introduction of softFlow®, innovative pulmonary care therapy which provides nasal high-flow warmed and humidified respiratory gases to spontaneously breathing patients. The technology, available on the softFlow 50, offers adult patients high-flow respiratory support through a soft nasal cannula by generating a consistent high flow of warm, humidified […]
Rhythmlink Receives FDA Clearance for ‘Sticky Pad’ New MR Conditional Electrode Line
Rhythmlink International, LLC has announced FDA clearance of a new product line. Sticky Pad™ Surface Electrodes, a line of peel and stick-on electrodes for Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONM) and Electroencephalography (EEG) are now FDA Cleared MR Conditional for 1.5 and 3 Tesla MRI environments. Rhythmlink has been selling a line […]
Ventec Life Systems Completes Historic 2020
Ventec Life Systems completed a record-breaking year manufacturing VOCSN critical care ventilators in response to COVID-19. Ventec produced 45,000 ventilators including their historic collaboration with General Motors to deliver 30,000 critical care ventilators to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in just 154 days. The company reported record growth in […]
eXciteOSA Device for OSA and Snoring Receives FDA Approval
Signifier Medical Technologies, an innovator in the sleep-disordered breathing market, today announced that eXciteOSA®, the first and only daytime intraoral neuromuscular stimulation device for treating mild obstructive sleep apnea and snoring, has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), giving millions of sufferers in the U.S. access […]
ECMOLife, Novel ExtraCorporeal Life Support System Commercial Release
Eurosets has announced the full commercial release of its novel ECMOlife system for Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS). This release comes after a successful pre-market clinical evaluation in which critically ill patients were supported by the device for a cumulative period of over 400 days with the longest individual treatment lasting […]
3B Medical Receives FDA Clearance on New Luna G3 Auto-BPAP
3B Medical, Inc. has received FDA 510(k) clearance on its new third-generation bi-level device, the Luna G3 Auto-BPAP. The Luna G3 Auto BPAP is a modern and technologically advanced Bi-Level PAP therapy device for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. This device is available with integrated heated tubing, cellular connectivity […]













