Collar Keeps Airways Open
This collar uses gentle negative pressure to keep the patient's airway
open, thus reducing the risk of airway obstruction and helping
improve oxygenation. After you place the cNEP Airway Management
System on the patient's neck and hook it up to the room's wall suc-
tion unit, the device's collar vacuum regulator provides constant lev-
els of negative pressure on the patient's neck, says Sommetrics,
gently "pulling" the airway open from the outside.
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