- How we all doing?
Here's a little video by Fisher & Paykel
on their soon to be released mask,
the Evora Full, looks pretty cool.
Cheers.
(techno music)
- The Evora Full mask has a soft silicone seal
that works in combination with our frame
and our stability wings.
It's super soft and super comfortable,
but when they move around at night, these stability wings,
they keep the geometry of the seal
and they stop it becoming unstable.
(upbeat music)
So with full-face masks,
they fit over your nose and around your mouth.
So what we are trying to address with Evora Full
was to have a more comfortable solution,
less intimidating, it's smaller,
fitting underneath their nose
and avoiding the nose bridge altogether.
Think they're gonna find that really comfortable.
It's gonna seal really well,
it gives them an alternative to an over-the-nose mask.
- The low profile of the mask,
makes it stay in place really well while you're wearing it,
to really promote mask stability while you're sleeping,
allowing a bit of freedom of movement while you're in bed.
And it also opens up the field of view,
you haven't got anything encroaching your vision
and allows you to wear glasses while wearing the mask.
- With the three different seals sizes
of the Evora Full mask,
we didn't simply just scale them larger and smaller
to get them three different sizes,
we tried to make sure that they would fit
a wide variety of people.
People have all sorts of different shapes,
different curvatures,
and it is quite difficult to design something
that does seal well for the majority of the population
and still be comfortable.
- We spent a lot of time with patients, really up close,
seeing how the geometry fit around the nose.
We looked at a lot of different ethnicities, as well,
to come up with our three sizes that cover
a large series of the population.
- The reason that we use such
a rigorous testing approach here
is that we need to make sure that the mask
is safe for the patient to use.
Therefore, we have to make sure
all paths withstand certain forces,
and when it's used in the home for a certain amount of time,
that everything still functions as it should.
- We had to connect and disconnect the connection points
about over a thousand times,
and went to see if there was any unforeseen wear
and tear on the part.
We're always trying to find the absolute limits
in how the users would use the mask.
- In a usability lab,
we will go through how to disconnect and connect to mask,
how to clean it,
how to set up the headgear,
to connect the headgear the most easiest way,
and how they can put them on themselves.
And yeah, show the ease of it.
- We work with suppliers all across the world,
looking for the best manufacturing equipment
that we can get.
So we have a ultrasonic welding process integrated
with leak testing on the frame assembly,
and that ensures that 100% of the frames are tested.
With a product like Evora Full,
that's optically critical to get those nice clear products,
we use robots to remove the parts from the mold tools
and avoid scratches.
What we're looking to do
is really make the same product over and over again,
as consistently as possible,
so the user experience is the same for all.
- So we've just finished the validation
of the Evora Full mask,
and from that trial we found
that over 90% of participants found the masks stable,
and almost everybody found that the mask
was compact on the face.
Care by Design, it really is about empathizing.
We want them to be able to feel confident
and know what they're doing,
every single time they put their mask on.
- [Birgit] It's all about the patient.
It is how can we improve their lives,
how can we make it better for them?
- [Matt] The difference that your products can make,
if you really connect with those people,
everything that we do, it has to benefit the patients.
- So there you have it, guys,
a little introduction by Fisher & Paykel into their new,
soon to be released, full-face mask, the Evora Full.
It looks pretty special,
and doesn't that just look like
the most amazing place to work?
All I wanted to do when I was watching that video
is go and sit on that park bench in the sun,
have a few beers with the F&P crew,
and start throwing out cool marketing terms,
like Vitera, Pilairo, Evora, VentiCool.
That marketing team is worth its weight in gold,
I just love those names.
Anyway, guys, see you soon.
I'll do a review on it shortly.
Bye, for now.