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COMFORT IS
PATIENT COMPLIANCE

Helping your patients feel more comfortable wearing a sampling line may help improve compliance. That’s why we’ve focused on improving comfort.

  • An improved neutral scent is intended to reduce sensitivity to smell
  • Soft tubing is designed to lay gently on the patient's face to help reduce irritation
  • The drying element has been moved further down the tubing, away from the patient's face on long-duration sampling lines

COMFORT IS
TECHNOLOGY YOU CAN TRUST

Improved sampling line design offers the reliability and accuracy you’ve come to expect from Microstream™ technology.

  • Kink-resistant tubing is engineered to help mitigate interrupted oxygen flow and resulting alarms
  • Oxygen is delivered in a cloud from pinholes around the mouth and nose helping to ensure delivery without diluting measurements or waveforms
  • Uni-junction™ technology is designed for effective sampling from both nares and the mouth, even at low tidal volumes
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COMFORT IS
IMPROVED USABILITY

Our redesigned packaging helps you quickly identify and place the right sampling line for each patient.

  • Improved, easy-tear opening.
  • Extended duration clearly labeled
  • Easy to follow step-by-step instructions
  • SKUs are letter-coded so you easily know the type of sampling line and what’s included

Sampling Line SKU Calculator

Each legacy Microstream™ sampling line has a one-for-one Microstream™ Advance filter line or Microstream™ Luer sampling line replacement. Use this guide to find your new Microstream™ Advance replacement SKU.

COMFORT IS
STREAMLINED ORDERING

We’re here to help the ordering process go smoothly. With our quick reference order guide, you can update your SKUs easily to the latest Microstream™ sampling lines.

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Microstream™ Orange Connector

Microstream™ Advance
short-term filter lines

Orange connectors designate short-term use. For use with Microstream™ capnography moniitors and multiparameter monitors equipped with Microstream™ technology.

Microstream™ Orange Connector

Microstream™ Advance
long-term filter lines

Yellow connectors designate long-term use. For use with Microstream™ capnography monitors and multiparameter monitors equipped with Microstream™ technology

Microstream™ Blue Connector

Microstream™ Luer
sampling lines

Blue connectors designate luer sampling lines. For use with most types of sidestream monitors with a standard luer input connector 

COMFORT IS
CONTINUAL RESEARCH

Understanding Respiratory Compromise

Our mission — to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life — guides everything we do, including meticulous standards-based research, development, and testing.

In capnography, understanding respiratory compromise is key to continual advances. We're committed to raising awareness, providing education and encouraging research of respiratory compromise.

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Capnography May Improve Patient Safety

For randomly selected GI patients undergoing propofol PSA, capnography monitoring resulted in a 52.56% decrease in severe oxygen desaturation (SpO2 ≤ 85%) 1,†

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Continuous Monitoring Improves Detection of Respiratory Compromise

With capnography monitoring, you can detect 23X more episodes of respiratory compromise.2,‡

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COMFORT IS
GETTING THE SUPPORT YOU NEED

We're your partner through every step of the capnography process — providing you the education, service, and support you need.

Clinical Education to Fit Your Needs

We offer a variety of accredited and non-accredited online and in-person education opportunities, including peer-to-peer events and educational grants.

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Service and Support Where You Are

From highly trained experts in our sales force to a global network of healthcare professionals, we offer support services, product training, as well as financial programs to ensure patient safety.

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Pricing to Fit Your Budget

We are here to help find ways for you to lower costs. From no-charge installation to our strategic contracting and finance programs, there is a solution to fit your needs.

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  • The Microstream™ capnography monitoring system should not be used as the sole basis for diagnosis or therapy and is intended only as an adjunct in patient assessment.

  • † Hypoxia was reduced from 7.8% to 3.7%. -52.56%=((3.7 -7.8)/7.8) X 100.

  • ‡ Compared to routine monitoring without capnography. Respiratory compromise defined as RR < 6 BPM, apnea > 20 seconds, etCO2 < 60 mmHg, or SpO2 < 88%.

  • 1. Beitz A, Riphaus A, Meining A, et al. Capnographic monitoring reduces the incidence of arterial oxygen desaturation and hypoxemia during propofol sedation for colonoscopy: a randomized, controlled study (ColoCap Study). Am J Gastroenterol. 2012;107(8):1205–1212.

  • 2. Hutchison R, Rodriguez L. Capnography and respiratory depression. Am J Nurs. 2008;108(2):35–39.

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