GF Health Products

Lumiscope Advanced Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor

Blood pressure monitor comes equipped with movement detection, LCD monitor

Coming back with an updated look, GF Health Products has restocked its Lumiscope Advanced Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor. The package includes a monitor, a universal cuff that can fit arm sizes between 8.66 and 17.32 inches, an AC adapter, four AA batteries, a soft carry pouch and an instruction manual. Up to four users can save 99 sets of memory each, which can be accessed via a large, easy-to-read LCD screen. The product has several capabilities, including irregular pulse detection, pulse pressure indication and movement detection. Customers will receive a one-year limited warranty with their purchase.

Convexity Scientific

Flyp Nebulizer

Flyp Nebulizer makes user compliance easier

The Flyp Nebulizer is an all-in-one, pocket-portable nebulizer that increases user compliance with a simplified “Fill, Click, Breath” operation. The device can aerosolize a wide range of medications in order to remove complex operational barriers that impact a variety of treatment regimens. Powered by a lithium-ion battery, the Flyp provides up to 10 treatments per charge, and a micro-USB port makes recharging simple and portable.

Dynarex

Dynarex Hip Chair with Adjustable Foot Rest

Hip Chair allows sitting without bending at hip, reduces stress on joints

The Dynarex Hip Chair with Adjustable Foot Rest is designed to let patients with arthritis or who have undergone hip or knee surgery sit without bending at the hip, while also reducing stress on joints while entering and exiting the chair. The solid hardwood chair features a vinyl seat and backrest designed for comfort. The vinyl is washable and water-resistant. The footrest has three height adjustments to ensure an ergonomic fit for each patient. The chair can withhold patients up to 300 lbs.

Philips

Philips Cares Aging & Caregiving service

A new way to be there for your loved one

Philips Cares Aging & Caregiving service is a digital experience that aids aging loved ones in keeping their close family and friends up-to-date on their care, giving them notifications and meaningful insights into their loved one’s wellbeing. The Philips Lifeline personal alert button lets an aging loved one connect with a trained care specialist 24/7 to dispatch the right kind of help, and now, family and friends can also manage this service through the digital experience. The Philips Cares mobile application will be available to download from the Apple and Google Play stores, as well as accessed via web browsers.

EasyWheelz LLC

Safe Transfer Kit

New kit provides safe, efficient transfer in and out of a wheelchair

The Safe Transfer Kit is designed to that resolves the issue of feet getting entangled in the footrests of standard wheelchairs. The kit’s rotator levers allow for a clean manipulation of the footrests, and it includes two swing-away leg extensions with torsion springs that default the footrests into the up position. Two levers mounted to the leg extensions let the passenger or transporter move the footrests into the down position as necessary. In addition, the kit includes a detachable push bar that mounts across the existing handle bars of a wheelchair, which allows for one-handed maneuvering.

BackEmbrace LLC

BackEmbrace

Slim back brace provides varying levels of posture support

BackEmbrace is a stylish posture solution that works by retracting the shoulders into proper alignment. In addition to posture correction, the brace helps prevent hunching; alleviates tension and strain in the upper back, neck and shoulders; and provides varying levels of support with its split-strap system.

MHI Safe-er-Grip

Safe-er-Grip Suction Cup Balance Assist Bar

Safe-er-Grip balance bar gets new chrome finish

• Available in new chrome finish and in lengths of 12 inches or 16 inches.
• Suction cup design requires no tools for installation and can be secured on any smooth, flat, non-porous surface for safer tub entries and exits.
• Flip-up tabs make it easy to attach, remove and relocate to different areas in the bathroom.

Arkray

Assure Slide

Arkray launches new swallowing aid

Assure Slide is a new swallowing aid from Arkray for people who have difficulty swallowing tablets and capsules. Assure Slide is a thick, smooth gel that helps tablets and capsules pass smoothly through the esophagus by moistening the mucous membranes in the mouth and throat cavity. The stomach breaks down substance immediately and has no effect on the absorption rate at the medication. Assure Slide comes in two options: Assure Slide Zero, which sugar-free and raspberry flavored, and Assure Slide Zero and Slide Forte, which is vanilla flavored and extremely thick for people with more acute swallowing difficulties.

Philips Respironics

InnoSpire Go

Philips Releases new Portable Hand-Held Nebulizer

InnoSpire Go is a portable medical nebulizer for people with asthma and chromic obstructive pulmonary disease who need daily inhalation treatment. Its rechargeable battery lasts up to 30 treatments per charge, and it includes a Lite Touch mask for comfort while using the device. InnoSpire Go can be used with many commonly prescribed medications for respiratory disease.

International Biophysics Corp.

AffloVest

AffloVest Offers New Approach to High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation

The AffloVest is a high frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) vest that quietly runs on batteries to provide truly portable therapy that can be billed under Medicare code E0483. Unlike other HFCWO devices, the AffloVest takes a new therapy approach and using eight, battery-powered oscillating motors, which are sewn into the AffloVest in areas correlating with the anatomy of the lungs. Rather than use air pressure, the oscillating motors create percussive waves that help the lungs break up and move built-up secretions in the airways to help patients with conditions such as COPD, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS, quadriplegia and other neuromuscular diseases.