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The Problem

The Problem

The Problem

  • The manual resuscitator, also known as the bag valve mask (BVM), is the standard means of providing emergency ventilatory support. 
  • Poor manual ventilation technique is a well-documented problem that occurs irrespective of a provider’s qualifications, training, experience, and confidence.
  • There are minimal safeguards for manual ventilation with a BVM. This results in high provider variability in breath delivery and can lead to serious complications.8

Pressure Delivered During Manual Ventilation

High Provider Variability

98%

Of responders delivered at least one breath that was inadequate or excessive per 90-second period.8

Solution

MVIP
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MVIP

  • SafeBVM’s Manual Ventilation Improvement Program (MVIP) focuses on 4 pillars: assessment, education, skills competency, and safety/quality improvement.
  • This turn-key training program addresses every aspect of manual ventilation and ensures that the provider’s skills are sharp year-round.
  • MVIP includes the implementation of SafeBVM’s award-winning and recently FDA-cleared medical device, the Adult Sotair® Device, in the field to reinforce what providers learned and minimize patient harm.

71%

Of the time, air enters the stomach when ventilating the lungs with a manual resuscitator.9
SOtair

The ADULT Sotair® Device

  • Air enters the stomach (gastric insufflation) at peak pressures crossing 20-22 cmH2O.1,2,3
  • Sotair® limits the flow of air at 55 L/min. For an adult with normal lung compliance and resistance, this corresponds to a maximum pressure of approximately 20 cmH2O.
  • Adult Sotair® Device received 510 (k) clearance from the US FDA for minimizing gastric insufflation.
  • Because Sotair® functions based on flow and not pressure, it can safely ventilate patients with a collapsed lung causing lower compliance or obstructed airway with a high resistance.

Improve Your Manual Ventilation Today

Our Supporters

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Awarded a Technology/Therapeutic Development Grant as a part of the Military Medical Research and Development program by the Department of Defense (DoD)
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Awarded 2 grants by the NIH, one Phase II SBIR/STTR grant, and one grant in collaboration with UMASS Memorial Medical Center
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Awarded Phae I SBIR contract by the AFWERX/AF Ventures initiative of the US Air Force
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Awarded Phase I & II SBIR/STTR grants by the National Science Foundation
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Sotair (1st & 2nd gen) was selected as a winner in 2019 and 2022 for the EMSWORLD Innovation Awards
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Selected in 2020's International Top 20 (out of 1800)
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Out of 130 companies, SafeBVM was 1 of 2 companies that were awarded grants
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Won Gold Prize in the 2019 European Design Awards
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Awarded a small business grant for the development and commercialization of SafeBVM's technology
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Selected for the 2021 program focused on companies looking to improve care, reduce costs and create new efficient approaches to problems within the medical industry
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Selected into the highly competitive NASDAQ Milestone Makers Program
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Won 1st place at the University of Minnesota's 2019 Design of Medical Device Conference
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Sotair was published as a potential solution to reduce barotrauma, overventilation, and underventilation in periods of extended manual ventilation

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