Teleflex
Teleflex believes in improving the health and quality of people’s lives. We apply purpose-driven innovation—a relentless pursuit of identifying unmet clinical needs—in a way that benefits patients, providers and society. Our Arrow®, Hudson RCI®, LMA® and Rusch® brands shape our portfolio of proven medical products and technologies. These distinguished brands are united by their common sense of purpose in providing anesthesia and respiratory therapy solutions that build, nurture and strengthen the vital parts at the heart of health care.
LMA® Airway Management
At A Glance
3015 Carrington Mill Blvd.
Morrisville, NC 27560
Employees
More than 11,000
CEO
Benson Smith
The LMA® Airway Management family of products from Teleflex has a proven track record of safety and efficacy, building on a 20-year history of innovation and trust. Each LMA® Airway has been carefully designed and tested to meet exacting standards. LMA® Airways are included in the American Heart Association® Guidelines for Resuscitation and the American Society of Anesthesiologists® Difficult Airway Algorithm.
The LMA® Airway portfolio now includes offerings with Cuff Pilot™ technology, the original integrated cuff pressure indicator. This novel technology is a single-use device and provides constant inside-the-cuff pressure indication, allowing for at-a-glance clinical assessments. In addition, the robust airway portfolio now offers a full range of single-use silicone laryngeal masks. Also featured is the LMA Supreme® Airway, which combines the best features of all previous LMA Airways to offer the highest degree of safety and ease of use. Whether for a routine procedure or to manage a higher-risk patient, the higher seal pressure and gastric access provide a higher degree of safety. The LMA Supreme® Airway is designed to channel fluids away from the airway in the unlikely event of active or passive regurgitation and allows for diagnostic testing and verifiable positioning.
Needle-Free Solutions for Drug Delivery
The LMA® Atomization family of products from Teleflex provides a simple-to-use, needle-free delivery solution for use with drugs approved for intranasal and/or oropharyngeal delivery. The LMA® MAD Nasal™ Intranasal Mucosal Atomization Device is the safe and painless choice that offers quick absorption across mucosal membranes to the bloodstream. The LMA® MADgic® Laryngo-tracheal Mucosal Atomization Device is a versatile choice to administer medication across the entire upper airway and beyond the vocal cords. The LMA® MADgic Airway™ Intubating Airway with Mucosal Atomization and Oxygen Delivery is an innovative choice to create a temporary airway to facilitate fiber-optic intubation, combining atomized topical anesthetic and oxygen delivery in an innovative and elegantly designed oral airway.
Post-op Pain Management Solutions
For most patients, postoperative pain is their primary concern before surgery, and nearly 80% of patients who experience postoperative pain report experiencing moderate to extreme pain.1 This is why every day we challenge the status quo by offering practical pain management solutions to deliver positive outcomes for the patient and provider.
Continuous peripheral nerve blocks have been proven to offer superior postoperative analgesia and improve patient satisfaction compared with opioids, while resulting in fewer minor complications, including nausea/vomiting, pruritus and sedation.2 The Arrow® FlexBlock® Echogenic Continuous Peripheral Nerve Block (CPNB) Catheter and the Arrow® AutoFuser® Disposable Pain Pump from Teleflex allow clinicians to combine efficient and accurate catheter placement with a reliable, unimpeded infusion of medication. The Arrow® FlexBlock® CPNB Catheter is an echogenic, flexible, kink-resistant catheter designed to help clinicians better control patient pain and improve overall block success. The Arrow® AutoFuser® Disposable Pain Pump offers the right pain pump to meet a variety of clinical demands, allowing clinicians to provide individualized patient pain control and adjust therapy as needed.
Enabling Greater Access to Video Laryngoscopy
The Rusch® Airtraq™ Avant™ Video Laryngoscope System provides users with an affordable video solution when and where it is needed. The system allows clinicians to project what they are seeing during intubation on a number of different platforms through a Wi-Fi connection. This allows the clinician to share his or her view with others, and increases visibility while intubating. The convenience of the Rusch® Airtraq™ Avant™ Video Laryngoscope System is that it requires little in the way of capital expenditures and allows clinicians to reuse the optics. The image can be projected up to 50 times before replacement. The Airtraq™ Avant™ Blades, which are available in two sizes, are fully disposable to reduce the risk for cross-contamination, enhancing patient safety.
Reducing Cross-Contamination, Reducing Cost
The risk for cross-contamination during intubation of the trachea exists because no perfect procedure for decontamination exists.3 Single-use devices offer the opportunity to reduce potential for infection associated with reusable devices.
Green Rusch Lite™ and Rusch® EquipLite® Disposable Metal Laryngoscope Blades are single-use blades that offer users the performance and feel of a reusable metal blade. These blades eliminate the hassles associated with reusable blades, such as the time and cost of reprocessing, without sacrificing strength or light quality.
The Rusch® DispoLED® Single-Use Fiber Optic Laryngoscope Handle is a reliable way to combat intubation infection risk. With its ISO 7376 compliant fittings, the green handle of the Rusch® DispoLED® Device can also be safely integrated with other compatible fiber-optic/green systems in use in the hospital.
Reducing Waste Anesthetic Gas Exposure in the PACU
An invisible risk exists in the PACU. Patients may exhale waste anesthetic gas (WAG) into the breathing zone of attending nurses.4 Although WAG cannot be detected by sight or odor, PACU clinicians can take action to protect themselves from the potential health effects.
The first of its kind on the market, the ISO-Gard® Mask with ClearAir™ Technology from Teleflex was developed in partnership with clinicians who identified the issue and wanted to take action. As the only solution currently available for source control of WAG in the PACU, the ISO-Gard® Mask scavenging system simultaneously delivers oxygen to patients and scavenges their exhalation to help limit exposure faced by clinicians and minimize the cumulative effect of low-level exposure to WAG.
References
- Warfield CA, et al. Acute pain management: programs in U.S. hospitals and experiences and attitudes among U.S. adults. Anesthesiology. 1995;83(5):1090-1094.
- Richman JM, et al. Does continuous peripheral nerve block provide superior pain control to opioids? A meta-analysis. Anesth Analg. 2006;102(1):248-257.
- Galinski M, et al. Disposable laryngoscope blades do not interfere with ease of intubation in scheduled general anesthesia patients. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2003;20(9):731-735.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. Anesthetic Gases: Guidelines for Workplace Exposures. Revised May 18, 2000. www.osha.gov/dts/osta/anestheticgases/index.html. Accessed June 28, 2016.
American Heart Association is a trademark or registered trademark of American Heart Association, Inc.
American Society of Anesthesiologists is a trademark or registered trademark of ASA Corporation.
AutoFuser is a trademark or registered trademark of Ace Medical Co., Ltd.
Airtraq and Avant are trademarks or registered trademarks of Prodol Meditec S.A.
Teleflex, Arrow, ClearAir, Cuff Pilot, DispoLED, EquipLite, FlexBlock, Green Rusch Lite, Hudson RCI, ISO-Gard, LMA, LMA Supreme, MAD, MAD Nasal, MADgic, MADgic Airway and Rusch are trademarks or registered trademarks of Teleflex Incorporated or its affiliates.
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