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Airway Management and Safe Patient Handling Combined:

The RAMP® System (Rapid Airway Management Positioner) from AirPal® is unique since it occupies a product category for Safe Patient Handling all of its own. The RAMP® System combines an air assisted lateral patient transfer device with a precisely adjustable air controlled patient positioning device for airway management.

What is Patient Positioning for Airway Management?

It has long been recognized that patient positioning effects airway patency and the work of breathing. Additionally, use of proper patient positioning has been shown to increase glottic exposure and facilitate direct laryngoscopy, especially for a "difficult airway." In studies comparing known positioning techniques for airway management it has been shown that placing a patient in the "ear to sternal notch" position is superior to other positions for maximizing airway patency, decreasing the work of breathing , and optimizing alignment of the airway axes. The AirPal® RAMP® allows a single caregiver to achieve placement of a patient into the "ear to sternal notch" position in an astounding seven seconds regardless of BMI or patient habitus.

Benefits of Combining Patient Transfer and Patient Positioning for Airway Management:

Combining both capabilities into one system creates synergies for patient care not achievable before. It is a natural symbiotic relationship; as an example, patient transfers can now be accomplished while a patient remains positioned for airway management. This single feature alone can assist in maintaining O2 saturation levels, thus lengthening the safe apnea period. New efficiencies are also created; patients can be transferred from a stretcher onto an operating table and "ramped" into position for airway management in under a minute (a task that may have taken 15 minutes or more before).

Applications:

Since the RAMP® System reduces the manual, ad hoc procedure of "ramping" a patient with linens, into a rapid, automated and replicable single operator procedure - caregivers can use the RAMP® to assist in procedures where time constraints found with traditional methods may have proved prohibitive - like pre-oxygenation or emergency airway management as when a patient is in recovery or under long term care and requires emergency airway insertion or BVM ventilation. Any patient known to have a "difficult airway" or known to have airway management "issues" as a result of obesity or other issues relating to habitus can benefit with the placement of the RAMP® System beneath them. Special medical fabrics which conform to pressure management surfaces and which are themselves optimized to reduce shear and maximize pressure management, mean the RAMP® System can remain under a patient for an extended length of time. The most obvious application is to use the RAMP® System to facilitate direct laryngoscopy - clinical trials indicated a 40% improvement in the Cormack-Lehane View less