The Right Tool for the Job

In EMS, it’s essential to have the right tools for the job. Airon Corporation, based in Florida, helps provide those tools to EMS agencies across the country.

For Ronald Bray, of Nature Coast EMS, this product was Airon’s pNeuton model S ventilator with CPAP.

The pNueton model S ventilator allows you to start with mask CPAP and, if the patient needs it, provide ventilation as well. The product is completely pneumatic, so battery or electrical power is not required.

Providers can choose between 100% FiO² or 65% using the device.

Bray says the products he had used before didn’t have the ability to alter the FiO². As a rural agency, this caused some issues.

“The other product we had used was completely oxygen generated,” Bray says. “Some transports would be an hour long, and you would need a trailer of oxygen tanks to keep them that far.”

Bray says another big benefit of the pNeuton model S is the ability to have the ventilator.

“We use the ventilator during cardiac arrests, and it frees up a person for resources,” Bray says. “It’s kind of like a force multiplier. When we put the patient on a ventilator, the paramedic is free to work on other aspects of the patient.”

Bray says ease of use is another reason the product has worked so well for his organization, and he says it was easy to implement as well.

“We did an in-service and made a laminated card with bullet points for setting it up and we were off and running,” Bray says. “I don’t believe we’ve had any significant operator error with the product.”

Bray says he would “very much” recommend the product to other organizations that are interested.

To learn more about Airon and their products, visit AironUSA.com.