Tag: Oxygen Concentrator
Drive launches PulmO2 for disadvantaged regions
October 14, 2024HME News Staff
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare has launched the PulmO2 Oxygen Concentrator to improve access to oxygen therapy in low- and middle-income countries. To ensure effective delivery and operation, DDH collaborated with Sanrai International, a key partner experienced in bringing medical equipment to underserved areas, to tap into the intricacies of underserved regions and ensure the concentrator's effectiveness in the most challenging settings. "Our mission has always...
Philips exit: ‘Nothing fazes us anymore'
February 16, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – A decision by Philips to exit a large chunk of the U.S. respiratory market will have a significant impact on the market, say 70% of respondents to a recent HME Newspoll.
Philips announced in January that it was discontinuing sales for 19 sleep and respiratory products, including oxygen concentrators and ventilators.
“There are very few big manufacturers left,” wrote one respondent. “Respironics had many high-quality products that will be...
Manufacturers seek to ‘take pain away’
February 2, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – The decision by Philips to discontinue its line of oxygen concentrators in the U.S. will leave a significant gap in the market, but manufacturers say they’re ramping up to meet increased demand, with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the CPAP recall.
Just prior to announcing it had agreed on the terms of a consent decree related to the recall, Philips announced on Jan. 25 that it was discontinuing sales for 19 products, including the EverFlo home...
Belluscura announces increased offer
January 22, 2024HME News Staff
LONDON and PLANO, Texas – The boards of Belluscura and TMT Acquisition have announced the terms of a recommended share offer to be made by Belluscura for the whole of the issued and to be issued share capital of TMT Acquisition. Having regard to the Belluscura share price in recent weeks, the companies have agreed on an increase in the number of new Belluscura shares to be offered in exchange for TMT acquisition shares. The value of a TMT acquisition share under the offer, based on the closing...
Belluscura increases visibility
April 21, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
LONDON and PLANO, Texas – Belluscura has secured a marketing agreement with the popular website GoodRx to increase direct-to-consumer sales of its X-PLOR portable oxygen concentrator.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based GoodRx operates www.goodrx.com and a mobile app that allow users to compare drug prices and get free coupons that they can use at the pharmacy. The company, which also operates a telehealth platform, estimates it has helped Americans save $35 billion on health care and prescription...
Baxter announces vent correction
March 14, 2023HME News Staff
DEERFIELD, Ill. – Baxter International has issued an urgent medical device correction for the Life2000 ventilation system due to the potential for patient oxygen desaturation (low blood oxygen) events that may occur under certain conditions when the system is connected with a third-party oxygen concentrator. Low oxygen saturation may lead to symptoms like shortness of breath, confusion, rapid heart rate or bluish skin. Among the most vulnerable patients, death, life-threatening events or permanent...
React Health acquires Invacare’s respiratory assets
February 7, 2023HME News Staff
SARASOTA, Fla. - React Health subsidiary Ventec Systems has acquired Invacare’s respiratory assets.
Invacare announced late last year that it would be exiting the respiratory market.
“With this acquisition, React Health is well positioned to continue to support the end-to-end care of patients with cardiology, sleep and respiratory illnesses, in partnership with physicians and providers of diagnostic and needed therapies,” said Tom Pontzius, president of operations...
Popularity of EVs squeezes access to compound used in concentrators
January 25, 2023HME News Staff
BOULDER, Colo. – As the demand for electric vehicles has grown, the price of lithium, which, when combined with zeolite, allows oxygen concentrators to generate oxygen at purity levels of 90% or higher, is experiencing significant increases, according to a bulletin from Quality Biomedical.
Lithium is a key component of the batteries used in EVs and certain sieve beds of oxygen concentrators.
“As the demand for EVs has increased, the price of lithium is experiencing significant...
Providers see Invacare’s exit as another limitation
December 9, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – In a year in which supply chain challenges and a major recall have brought challenge after challenge for HME providers, the news that Invacare is pulling out of the respiratory market has left some worried about a new hurdle in obtaining equipment.
“It’s been a rough year,” said Todd Flesch, co-founder of the Charlotte, N.C.-based Portable Oxygen Solutions. “I don’t know that there’s one company out there currently that can pick...
CAIRE expands portfolio in Latin America
May 2, 2022HME News Staff
BALL GROUND, Ga. – CAIRE expects to make its Companion 5 and NewLife Intensity 10 stationary oxygen concentrators available in Latin America in July, following anticipated approval by the Brazilian Health Regularity Agency (Anvisa). “During the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic oxygen shortages throughout South America have underscored the need to expand CAIRE’s portfolio of equipment available to providers to serve patients prescribed oxygen as they are discharged from the...