Tag: Responsive Respiratory
RRI upgrades duration card
March 27, 2025HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory has upgraded its popular duration card to include a full range of flow settings available on the company’s regulators, from pediatric to high flow. The card lists the most common medical oxygen cylinder sizes and the approximate duration for each when using a continuous flow oxygen regulator or 6:1 conserver on a full cylinder. “The duration card is handy tool for both providers and patients as it addresses one of the primary concerns for oxygen...
Responsive Respiratory adds Todd Derickson to sales team
February 17, 2025HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory has announced that Todd Derickson has joined the company’s executive team as director of sales. Derickson, who brings more than three decades of experience driving high growth sales in the HME market, joins the company following the recent retirement of Michael Harrington. “Todd is a highly respected industry veteran who brings a wealth of respiratory sales knowledge to Responsive Respiratory,” said Steve Bannon, president. “We are...
RRI’s Harrington retires
February 3, 2025HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory Inc. (RRI) has announced that Michael Harrington retired as vice president of sales effective Jan. 31. Harrington was one of three founding partners of RRI and oversaw the sales department since the company’s inception in 2003. “We have benefited greatly from Mike’s many contributions to RRI over the years, perhaps none more important than his passion for developing strong customer relationships,” said Steve Bannon, president. “His...
RRI issues newest product catalog
July 11, 2024HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory has released a new Product Solutions catalog for oxygen. The catalog highlights RRI’s newest entry into the oxygen analyzer market, the O2 Checker, and its commitment to high-pressure oxygen products. “The O2 checker is unique in today’s oxygen market,” said Steve Bannon, president. “The user-intuitive interface allows technicians to transition seamlessly between equipment types and features a simulated breath function to detect...
Product launches: RRI, Medline, Sunrise Medical
January 10, 2024HME News Staff
Responsive Respiratory has added a new oxygen analyzer to its portfolio of high-pressure respiratory oxygen products. Designed to test key performance functions of supplemental oxygen systems, the O2 Checker is a must-have diagnostic and validation tool for use with most home oxygen equipment on the market today, including portable oxygen concentrators, pneumatic oxygen conserving devices, stationary concentrators and oxygen regulators up to 15 LPM flow rates, the company says. The analyzer measures...
RRI to continue supporting HomeFill
December 1, 2022HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Responsive Respiratory says it is committed to providing cylinders and valves compatible with the HomeFill system, despite Invacare’s decision to exit the respiratory market by the end of the year. “We stand committed to servicing the needs of oxygen providers,” said Steve Bannon, RRI president. “The departure of Invacare in the respiratory market leaves a tremendous gap for providers utilizing the HomeFill compressor. Rather than decommissioning units...
RRI launches Boost display
November 2, 2022HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory has created a new showroom floor display to broaden its Boost Oxygen portfolio. “The showroom display is a natural extension of our Boost Oxygen portfolio,” said Steve Bannon, president. “We are pleased to offer providers a new eye‐catching tool to drive cash sales of Boost Oxygen for the holiday season.” The display, which features Boost’s signature green color, assembles quickly and easily. The sturdy corrugated floor...
In brief: Philips recall, catheter payments, Pottery Barn play
September 9, 2022HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – Philips Respironics is alerting users of certain CPAP or Bi-Level PAP therapy masks with magnetic headgear clips or straps that these devices should not be used by or near patients and their household members, caregivers and bed partners who have metallic implanted devices or metallic objects (such as metallic splinters) in the body.
The magnetic headgear clips are used to attach the headgear straps to the masks, a commonly used method in sleep therapy devices.
This...
Responsive Respiratory boosts retail offering
September 6, 2022HME News Staff
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory has a new partnership agreement to distribute Boost Oxygen Products into the home care market. Founded in 2007, Boost Oxygen offers portable supplemental oxygen in an easy-to-use canister. “Positioned as an over-the counter purchase, Boost is ideal for use in out-of-breath moments due to physical exertion, such as climbing stairs, recreational activities, etc.,” said Steve Bannon, president of RRI. “Boost is a natural fit for providers to...
Another Bannon tapped to lead RRI
April 8, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor
ST. LOUIS – Responsive Respiratory Inc.’s new president and owner, Steven Bannon, plans to take the company to the next level, but he doesn’t plan to change its commitment to customer service.
Steven Bannon succeeds his father, Thomas Bannon, who will continue to serve as a business consultant for the company, which offers high-pressure oxygen products, including conservers, regulators, cylinders, carts and racks, carry cases, disposables and accessories.
“Things...