microVENT® Responder is a controlled flow oxygen powered resuscitation system designed for easy use in line with the Resuscitation Guidelines 2005.

The Resuscitation Guidelines 2000 highlighted the advantages of resuscitating with smaller volumes and lower flow rates. Using 100% oxygen enables lower volumes while maintaining adequate oxygenation and thereby lessening the risk of gastric insufflation, vomiting and subsequent aspiration of vomit into the lungs. The Resuscitation Guidelines recommend volumes up to 600ml delivered over 1 second.
The new Guidelines 2005 also recommend that CPR should be performed at a 30 compression to 2 ventilation ratio.

microVENT® Responder has the following easy to use features and controls:
1) Flow control select with a choice of 40 lpm and 20 lpm. Setting the flow control to 40 litres per minute enables microVENT® Responder to deliver the correct volumes of 600ml delivered in the correct time of 1 seconds. The lower flow rate enables the resuscitator to be used with children.
2) Squeezing the trigger initiates flow of 100% oxygen from the resuscitator. microVENT® Responder is designed to enable the user to hold the resuscitation mask and control the airway with a two handed grip, operating the trigger with one finger. An additional safety feature is that there is no oxygen wastage while the resuscitator is not used for patient ventilation, so all the oxygen is used for resuscitation helping the supply last longer..
3) The microVENT® Responder features a pressure relief valve that prevents dangerous airway pressures being achieved. An audible warning sounds when the relief valve is operating.
4) The use of the two handed grip enables the user to control the airway and give a good seal to the face mask. This grip is considered easier to perform than the one handed grip needed when operating a bag-valve-mask.
5) microVENT® Responder has standard resuscitation fittings enabling its use with standard resuscitation facemasks and other resuscitation devices.
6) microVENT® Responder has a two metre supply hose manufactured specially from flexible plastics to enable the easy use of the resuscitator.
7) Because the microVENT® Responder only uses oxygen as it is supplied to the patient, there is a huge saving over the consumption of a bag-valve-mask resuscitator (with a constant flow of 15 lpm to the reservoir). This means the portable oxygen cylinder lasts longer.

microVENT® Responder is supplied on its own or as the central component of a resuscitation kit.

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UK Patent No.2270629. USA Patent No. 5537999 & 5351361. Canada Patent No. 2107358. European Patent No. 0578679.