A heat and moisture exchanger device (HME) mounted on an end of a tracheotomy tube. The heat moisture exchange device has, in parallel with reticulated polyurethane foam filter, an N95 filter material that is customized in a wafer shape so that to precisely fits inside the housing of the HME, with a good seal and avoiding air leakage. Airflow is redirected inside the HME in a turbulent fashion, replicating Brownian Motion and the phenomena of Impaction, Interception, and Diffusion that are typically found in a HEPA filter, and enhancing filtration of air that is breathed by tracheotomized patients, hence protecting these patients from inhaling airborne germs and viruses, including COVID 19.

A tubular applicator is releasably connected at a first end to the collar of an adhesive peristomal baseplate to assist the user in positioning the baseplate around a tracheostoma on the user's neck, where the applicator defines an internal flowpath which is placed in fluid communication with the tracheostoma via the collar of the baseplate, and the flowpath opens outwardly via at least one outer aperture in the applicator, and where the at least one outer aperture has a total section area greater than a first section area of the flowpath at the first end of the applicator.

Disclosed are materials, articles, devices, and methods for manufacture thereof that pertain to a tracheostomy support system. The tracheostomy support system can eliminate torque on the tracheostomy tube and offload pressure caused by the tracheostomy tube on the neck skin of a patient. Additionally, the tracheostomy support system can indicate when pressure or moisture on the skin is at an unsafe level that may predispose the patient to neck skin ulceration, breakdown, or infection. The tracheostomy support system can be automatically adjusted through a closed-loop feedback system or can be manually adjusted.

An intubation assembly and shield configured to at least partially reduce the risk of contagion of airborne illnesses. The intubation assembly comprises an intubation apparatus assembly, which may comprise an intubation apparatus such as a laryngoscope, endoscope, bronchoscope, or other fiberoptic device. The intubation apparatus assembly may be operatively disposed on the shield assembly. The intubation apparatus may be placed on a correspondingly dimensioned sleeve. The shield assembly comprises a body with a plurality of side segments and a first transparent component with a shield opening disposed thereon. The shield opening may be used for insertion of the intubation apparatus assembly. The shield assembly may also comprise a second transparent component with at least one longitudinally disposed slot for insertion of an endotracheal tube or other intubation apparatus(es). The shield assembly may be provided with ports to attach a vacuum device to provide negative pressure.

A negative pressure surgical apparatus. The apparatus includes a mask configured to cover a portion of the face of a patient and including a first port and an instrument port. The first port is configured to draw negative pressure from between the mask and the face of the patient. The instrument port is configured to receive a medical instrument therethrough and form a seal therewith. The instrument port is positioned on the mask so as to permit surgery at a surgical site.

A mask assembly includes a mask body configured to cover a wearer's nose and mouth. The mask body has a breathing area with breathing openings and a straw port. A replaceable filter medium is configured to cover the breathing openings on the interior of the mask body when installed thereon in a removable filter medium retainer element. A removable face plate overlies, and is spaced from, the breathing area on the exterior of the mask, so as to allow air to flow through the breathing openings and around the sides of the face plate, while blocking particulate matter from passage to or from the nose or mouth of the wearer. The face plate, the filter medium retainer element, and the filter medium may have openings that are alignable with the straw port.

A tracheostoma device holder for holding a tracheostoma device superimposed of a tracheostoma of a person. The tracheostoma device holder may include a plate and a tracheostoma device fitting. The plate may be configured for attachment over a tracheostoma via a proximal side thereof. The plate may include a through hole. The tracheostoma device fitting may include a through passage arranged superimposed the through hole. The tracheostoma device fitting may extend distally from the plate. The plate may further include a disc of a thermoplastic material and a plate material arranged at least laterally of the disc. The plate material may have a melting point different from a melting point of the disc.

To solve the problem of making available a speech valve for persons who have undergone a laryngectomy or tracheotomy, which speech valve in particular has a long useful life, a speech valve is proposed having a housing with a proximal opening and at least one filter at least partially received in the housing, and with a piston-like valve element, wherein the filter at least partially surrounds the valve element, wherein the valve element is movable on a valve seat, arranged on the proximal opening, in order to produce a closure position and can be returned with a spring action to an open position of the speech valve, and wherein the valve element has a lower end which faces towards the proximal opening and which is assigned to the valve seat in the open position and, with the valve seat, forms a gap through which an air stream can be guided.

A split passageway resuscitation training device is described. Embodiments of the split passageway resuscitation training device can be implemented with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) mask, a CPR valve (with or without a mask), or a CPR resuscitation bag. The split passageway resuscitation training device can allow a simulated rescuer and a simulated victim to use a CPR mask. For instance, the split passageway resuscitation training device can allow the training rescuer to practice exhaling into the mask without the “live” victim having to inhale the rescuer's breaths. The split passageway resuscitation training device also allows the victim to breathe through a different passageway of the device while wearing the mask.

An UV-C device may include several UV-C light sources (e.g., UV-C LEDs) and such UV-C LEDs may have UV-C reflecting structures arranged to direct UV-C in a particular direction and at a particular size and shape. Doing so may, for example, increase the UV-C in a particular direction or working area. A UV-C generating device may be utilized in an air duct to sterilize air through that air duct. A UV-C generating device may, for example, be utilized to increase the amount of UV-C that enters a UV-C fiber optic tube. A UV-C generating device may be utilized, for example, to inactivate one or more virus (e.g., one or more different viruses and/or one or more claves of the same virus) and a UV-C inactivated virus may be utilized as a vaccination. A facility may be provided that received strains from the same clave and/or different claves and that UV sterilizes (e.g., UV-C sterilizes) the strains and combines the strains into a combinational UV-C vaccination of multiple UV-C inactivated strains.