SotairIQ Named 2025 EMS World Innovation Award Winner

SotairIQ Wins the 2025 EMS World Innovation Award

SafeBVM is proud to announce that SotairIQ™ has been selected as a Winner of the 2025 EMS World Innovation Awards. This recognition highlights the growing impact of research-backed training technologies designed to improve manual ventilation performance and patient safety.

The EMS World Innovation Awards recognize products that advance emergency medical care through innovation, usability, and real-world impact. With SotairIQ’s recognition in 2025, SafeBVM continues its mission of improving survival through safer manual ventilation.

Full EMS World Announcement:
https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/emsworld/feature/2025-innovation-awards-winners?utm_content=360632939&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-138853699489721

A Legacy of Innovation in Manual Ventilation

The 2025 award represents the third EMS World Innovation Award for SafeBVM technologies, reflecting continued progress in both training and clinical solutions for manual ventilation.

SafeBVM Innovation Awards Timeline

• 2019 — EMS World Innovation Award Winner

  Sotair training device recognized for introducing flow-control concepts to manual ventilation training.
  

• 2022 — EMS World Innovation Award Winner

  Sotair clinical device awarded after receiving FDA 510(k) clearance, recognizing its role as a flow-limiting safety accessory for manual ventilation.

• 2025 — EMS World Innovation Award Winner

  SotairIQ™, SafeBVM’s guideline-driven training platform, recognized for advancing measurable manual ventilation training and performance feedback.

These recognitions reinforce SafeBVM’s commitment to innovation, education, and safer airway management practices.

The Problem: Manual Ventilation Is Critical — and Highly Variable

Manual ventilation remains one of the most essential skills in emergency medicine. Yet it is also one of the most inconsistent interventions performed in EMS and emergency care.

Common ventilation errors include:

• Excessive flow

• Excessive pressure

• Excessive tidal volume

• Excessive ventilation rate

These variations can negatively impact patients experiencing cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, respiratory failure, and overdose.

Improving consistency in manual ventilation has become a growing priority for EMS educators, medical directors, and quality improvement programs.

What Makes SotairIQ Different

SotairIQ™ was designed to address the variability in manual ventilation by transforming a traditionally subjective skill into a measurable and trainable performance metric.

The platform provides real-time feedback and visualization of key ventilation parameters, including:

• Tidal volume

• Respiratory rate

• Inspiratory time

• Airway pressure

• Inspiratory flow

By converting “feel-based” ventilation into objective performance feedback, SotairIQ enables providers to develop proper ventilation technique through data-driven training and gamified learning.

This approach helps build muscle memory and consistency, allowing providers to better understand how flow, pressure, timing, and volume interact during manual ventilation.

Industry-Recognized and Field-Proven

SafeBVM technologies are currently used by more than 165 EMS and fire agencies across the United States.

Organizations are using Sotair and SotairIQ for:

• Real-world clinical deployment

• Training and education programs

• Quality improvement initiatives

• Airway management education

Together, these tools support a more structured and measurable approach to manual ventilation performance improvement.

Research-Backed Development

The development of SafeBVM technologies has been supported by research collaborations and funding from major institutions, including:

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

• U.S. Department of Defense

• U.S. Air Force

These partnerships have helped drive research into ventilation safety, flow control, and training methodologies designed to improve outcomes in emergency airway management.

Three Wins. One Mission.

The recognition of SotairIQ as a 2025 EMS World Innovation Award Winner represents another milestone in SafeBVM’s mission:

Improving survival through safer manual ventilation.

As EMS systems continue to focus on training quality, guideline adherence, and patient safety, SafeBVM remains committed to advancing both clinical devices and training technologies that support providers in delivering consistent, effective ventilation.