Precise performance. Hospital-wide versatility. And features that support improved outcomes.
These are just some of the benefits that acute care RT directors and managers cite when talking about their Volara Systems for 3-in-1 oscillation and lung expansion (OLE) therapy.
They’ve replaced their MetaNeb Systems with Volara Systems to help patients breathe easier, providing Continuous Positive Expiratory Pressure (CPEP), Continuous High Frequency Oscillation (CHFO), and aerosol delivery with a single device.
Their words and their stories—including case studies and audio clips presented here—make the case for how the Volara System can benefit your patients, staff, and hospital systems, too.
“The Volara System is helping decrease ventilator days and decrease length of stay in the hospital.”
In Their Words…
“The thing that makes the Volara System better is it gives you feedback and information so you can tweak things and make specific adjustments on the settings in real time. That’s a big difference between the Volara and MetaNeb Systems.”
“With the Volara System, you get a summary about the treatment, an average of your pressures, a total time for all modalities—CPEP, CHFO and your nebulizer. Having that information that the Volara System provides is a vast improvement over the MetaNeb System as far as pressure delivery.”
“We had a great couple month trial period and were able to really look at some clinical outcomes and garner some good feedback from our therapists of how they felt about the machine and the interface…”
“The fact that it’s portable really helps. We can take it to almost any unit in the hospital, and sometimes the same unit will follow the patient from the Emergency Center through the burn unit, take them to the step-down unit, and the Volara System will just follow them until they’re discharged.”
“We’re using it post-op, we’re using it on patients with traumas. We’re getting the most positive feedback out of our burn unit.”
“We started to see immediate improvement in patients, seeing them go home from the emergency department, or seeing them go to the observation unit and go home the next day.”
“When you have staff that are confident and comfortable in using an interface, that alone is going to provide a better therapy to the patient. They’re going to be more focused on the patient and what clinically is going on with the pressures and the vital signs, instead of on operating the machine.”
“Being able to deliver higher pressure means you’re going to reach those smaller airways and that’s going to help secretion clearance. As long as the patient can tolerate it, the higher pressure is definitely more beneficial. For more complex patients, we’re able to manually set those pressures. But for the average COPD patients, the presets are really effective.”
“lt’s been very beneficial for our therapists to use the manual mode and adjust to the patient, giving more or less pressure as clinically indicated. And the automatic mode gives physicians the ability to provide a standardized treatment for a specific patient population.”
“One of the nice features is if you have a patient on a ventilator, maybe at night and then during the day they’re on a trach collar, you can program those settings depending on which mode they’re on. It’s a time-saver for the clinician, but more importantly, you know you can offer different therapies with the same device based on what you know your patient needs.”
“…31% of admitted patients were discharged within or less than their expected length of stay.”
“We use either medication or normal saline in the nebulizer and are able to get those secretions moving with hyperinflation and oscillations. Within two or three treatments, we’re seeing significant chest x-ray improvements off the ventilator. That’s now a standard course for many of our postoperative heart patients.”
“It frees the clinician up to focus more on the patient. You’re not focusing so much on the operation of the machine, that is a huge advantage to the patient and therefore the outcome…”
“The ease of use, the patient compliance, those are all time-savers, so that’s very helpful in the big picture.”
“I think the biggest ‘Aha!’ moment for us was patient compliance. We would have patients that wouldn’t always be able to tolerate the therapy with the MetaNeb System. Now, we can tweak these settings for each patient. With the precise higher pressure, the Volara System is able to deliver what we need.”
“Patients were saying, ‘where is that machine I was getting in the ED? I want this at home. This was a life saver.’”
“The fact that you can tweak the system to make it specific for each patient, including pediatric patients, I think that’s very important. We’ve had pediatric patients in the patient room but not even in their bed, or they’re in a little activity area or the playroom, and we’re able to provide the therapy in there with the Volara System.”
Case Studies Provide More Details
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“Before we even got the units, our Baxter representative came out and provided education and training, as well as a clinical expert to work with our clinical educators,” says Anthony Trantham. “The day we received our Volara units, we were using them on patients right away.”
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