Mobile Airway Cleaning Vest Therapy
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Airway Cleaning Therapy
Diseases such as COPD, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, quadriplegia and other neuromuscular disorders can reduce lung function, increase mucus production and interfere with proper breathing. Increased mucus production and retention of excess mucus increase the risk of lung infections.
Effectively clearing mucus from the air passages is extremely important. Airway clearance therapy using traditional manual chest physciotherapy or HFCWO vest therapy can provide improvement both in pulmonary function and quality of life in patients with chronic hypersecretive diseases.
HFCWO vest therapy can help loosen thick mucus secretions so it can be mobilized from your lungs by coughing. Clearing the airways may help decrease lung infections, reduce antibiotic use and hospitalization, and improve lung function.
The goals of AffloVest mechanical HFCWO therapy are to reduce the number of exacerbations and infections and to improve patient quality of life by reducing airway inflammation and mobilizing secretions.
Key Features of the Vest
1. Fully Mobile
With no long hoses or bulky generators, the battery powered Vest is fully mobile during use.
2. Size Variations
The Vest comes in 7 different sizes, to fit children and adults from XXS to XXL, 18 – 65+ inches in chest circumference. No age limitations.
3. Customizable
The Percussion, Vibration and Drainage settings and intensity can be customized to personalize your therapy to more closely mimic manual CPT.
4. Lightweight
The Vest is the lightest fully mobile during use HFCWO vest on the market.
Afflo Vest – The New Gold Standard
During the last 3 decades, HFCWO airway clearance vest therapy has been confined to a technology that originated in the early 80s. Traditional air-bladder vest systems are comprised of an air-pulse generator and an inflatable vest that is connected by hoses, which confined patients to a seated position and plugged into a wall during treatment.
Once the patient puts the vest on and turns on the generator, each squeeze of the vest provides pressured air pulses to oscillate the chest wall and produce a cough.
As the first truly portable, battery-operated HFCWO therapy vest, AffloVest was specifically engineered to give patients the freedom and mobility to streamline therapy, enhance airway clearance, help mobilize lung secretions, and promote treatment adherence.
The AffloVest is designed to deliver seamless mobility, without the confinement found in other therapies, to help improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory diseases.