Heat Moisture Exchanger with Filter (HMEF) - Pediatric

Air Safety line offers a range of HMEF for use within Anesthesia, Respiratory and Critical Care clinical areas. Indicated for use with patients whose upper airways are being bypassed by an artificial tracheal airway or receiving artificial ventilator support. This removes the patient's ability to filter and humidify inspired gases. Medical gases are much colder and dryer than those, which we would normally breathe so the problem is exacerbated during Anesthesia
and Ventilation.
The hospital environment is increasingly a potential source of infection and with the increased incidence of infectious diseases the possibility of cross contamination due to the reuse of equipment or the sharing of equipment is a real risk. Air Safety line is able to offer different types of filtration solutions for the protection of patients and equipment in the Medical field. ASL offers both pleated paper filters and electrostatic filters. All are independently tested at
Nelson Laboratories USA and CAMR Porton Down UK. All pleated filters are individually tested in accordance with BS EN 13328:1 2001 to confirm that they are all above 99.97% efficiency and classified as HEPA performance.HME media acts in a similar way to a persons upper airway, when they breathe out the media traps and retains moisture and warmth present in the expired breath, which otherwise would be lost.
On the next breath the moisture and heat is released, having the effect of both warming and humidifying the inspiratory gas. Air Safety's line HME media has been developed to maximize the surface area, which is a key feature of the efficiency of performance. The combination of these design features has enabled Air Safety line to achieve over 30mg/L H2O on all there devices when independently tested to ISO 9360 part 1 at MDA test centre University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, UK.