World's First Integrated Battery Powered CPAP
AEIOmed's first CPAP, the Aura, is now available with
its all night integrated battery pack. The heated
humidifier is expected out within a few weeks. AEIOmed is
shaking the market up with a CPAP that truly addresses
the home/travel market. Consider that:
1. The Aura has the first optional battery pack that
fits in the CPAP footprint. The only other battery
pack on the market, the Puritan Bennett, weighs in
at 7 lbs and will not run heated humidifiers. The
Aura battery pack weights 2 lbs and runs the CPAP
and heater a full eight hours.
2. The battery is charged during normal operation.
Power disruptions during the night are handled easily
as the machine seamlessly switches to battery power
and back again when the power comes back up. No other
machine currently offers this feature.
3. Additional batteries are readily available and plug
into the battery pack.
4. The Aura has the smallest foot print of any CPAP in
the world. It is also the smallest and lightest CPAP/Heated
Humidifier combination in the world. It has set new standards
for travel and power features. It is great for airplanes,
camping and backpacking as well as power interruptions
caused by natural disasters or normal outages.
Aura Travel CPAP with Rechargeable Battery Pack
2005 Associated Professional Sleep Societies Conference
The CPAPtalk.com booth handed out nearly 3000 "Introduction To The Sleep
Lab" DVDs to doctors and sleep labs at the recent Denver Associated
Professional Sleep Societies (APSS) Conference.
Our DVD is a step by step explanation of what happens during a
visit to the sleep lab. It is a must have for people who know they
are going in for a sleep study or for that friend who needs to go
but does not yet understand the risks or the process.
As our service to the CPAP community, we are currently
offering our "Introduction To The Sleep Lab" DVD(s) at
no cost to anyone who fills out our "Request By Mail" form.
Please make your doctors, sleep labs and friends aware that this tool is
available and free!
Download "Introduction To The Sleep Lab" (English)
Download "Introduccion al Laboratorio de Sueno" (Spanish)
Request Introduction To The Sleep Lab DVDs By Mail
APSS Denver 2005 CPAPtalk.com Booth Pictures and Writeup
Puritan Bennett 425 ST
Puritan Bennett has held the title of world's smallest
Bilevel ST machine for many years. They are set to out do
themselves with the new Puritan Bennett 425 ST which is
due out August 1st.
Barely larger than their super small 420 CPAP line, this
full featured machine provides the features of the big
units with unmatched portability. Impressive.
The 425 ST will be available for pre-order on our website soon.
We will follow up on it in our next newsletter.
Easy Breathing Technology Heats Up: C-Flex, SoftX and EPR
C-Flex is a feature that makes breathing back against CPAP
pressure easier to do by creating momentary pressure drops
as a patient begins exhaling. Respironics invented C-Flex and
holds patents for its exclusive use.
Other manufactures are now bringing products to market with
their own versions of easy breathing technology. Some time ago
Invacare released the Invacare Polaris EX CPAP with SoftX that
uses a valve system to bleed pressure off at the beginning of
expiration.
Resmed is preparing S8 machines for a late August launch that
have EPR (Exhalation Pressure Relief). The Resmed version
specifics are largely secret but it is known that the specific
pressure drop in centimeters at the initiation of expiration
is adjustable.
We have been big supporters of C-Flex from the start.
We said in our November 2002 CPAP Newsletter that we
were:
"convinced that C-Flex will soon make fixed pressure CPAPs obsolete.
Anyone who has had an opportunity to breath on standard CPAP vs C-Flex
is almost sure to strongly prefer C-Flex"
This trend is a good one for an industry built on improving
patient's lives.
cflex.respironics.com
C-Flex vs. Traditional CPAP: Brown University Study
November 2002 CPAP Newsletter
REMstar Auto with C-Flex Auto Adjusting CPAP Machine
Resmed S8 Heated Humidifier
Resmed's S8 series H3i Heated Humidifier is scheduled
to release August 7. Thus far, we have only the S8
Escape CPAP and the 5.6 software of the S8 series.
When the Auto, Elite, and Compact versions arrive in
early September, Resmed will have nearly an all new
product line.
The H3i Heated Humidifier will be available for pre-order on our website soon.
S8 Escape CPAP
CPAP Machines of the Future
What features will successful CPAP Machines of the future have?
We think the most popular machines sold over the
Internet will have all of these features:
- Automatic Pressure Setting. Machine will adjust to the patient's ideal pressure on a breath by breath basis.
- User Adjustable Easy Breathing Technology. Machines will be easy to exhale out against.
- Quiet, Durable and Travel Friendly.
- Integrated Battery Power. Options will allow overnight sleep on a humidified CPAP when no power is available.
Patients will be able to sleep through power interruptions with uncompromised treatment.
- Effective Auto Adjusting Humidification. Humidification that adjusts to keep near 100% absolute humidity delivered to the
patient with no hose or mask condensation. No more flu like respiratory symptoms and no more water in the hose!
- Meaningful Data on CPAP Display. Simple patient access to snore, apnea and hypopnea data on the machine display with
history so user can verify efficacy past and present and take action as needed. Machines will also advise patient of
unacceptable results.
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