Hi.
I’m Chris Kiple, and I’m part of the team at Ventec Life Systems that helped create
VOCSN.
Our team, consisting of more than 30 engineers, who have dedicated their life to creating
next-generation medical-device technologies, and hundreds of medical professionals, care-givers
and patients that provided their feedback to help make VOCSN truly simple and easy to
use.
At its core, VOCSN is a critical-care ventilator that combines additional therapies, including
an internal oxygen concentrator that can generate the equivalent of six liters a minute of oxygen.
Cough therapy at the touch of a button that you can literally activate in seconds instead
of minutes.
A suction system that is equivalent to what you’re used to using in the hospital, by
providing high-flow suction throughout the entire suction experience, and a high-performance
nebulizer that automatically compensates with the ventilator.
Let’s orient you to VOCSN.
On the front side, you’ve got the alarm silence button and the power button.
Spinning to the back, you have the dove tail for easy mounting to a roll stand, wall mount,
bed rail and wheelchair, external high-pressure oxygen port, external low-pressure oxygen
port, remote alarm port for nurse-call cables, USB ports, air and fan filters and the power
connection port.
VOCSN is designed to be used across the entire continuum of care, from a hospital to the
home, and it’s designed for patients five kilograms
and above.
Everything we did in VOCSN was designed to make it easy and simple to use.
We designed it to work much more like your cell phone than a typical confusing medical
device.
If you look at VOCSN, on the operating system here, it’s easy to see the batteries in
the upper right-hand corner.
Those batteries represent nine hours of internal on-board battery power.
VOCSN, which combines more than 55 pounds of equipment, creates true everyday mobility,
and those nine hours allow you to go outside and enjoy your everyday life.
If you need to go longer than nine hours, we have simple hot-swappable batteries that
are easy to put back in and continue moving VOCSN forward.
VOCSN is completely customizable.
You can get all five therapies or just the mix of therapies the patient needs.
In this example, we’ve removed the suction and the nebulizer therapy, leaving only ventilation,
oxygen and cough.
The VOCSN critical-care ventilator is designed to bring the best of invasive, non-invasive
and mouthpiece ventilation into one system.
We provide a comprehensive set of ventilation modes and settings to help you customize the
patient’s breath for breathing comfort.
We also provide circuit compensation and advanced leak compensation to make sure the patient
is comfortable at all times.
To adjust any of the settings within the ventilation therapy, it’s easy.
Simply go to the therapy screen and tap on the ventilation icon.
By tapping the ventilation icon, you will see three different presets.
I’ve programmed those three presets for a normal day in the life of a patients.
For example, you have the day mode, the night mode and the mobile mode.
If I want to adjust any of the settings that you’re seeing on the three presets, all
I’d have to do is go to the settings and alarm icon here.
By tapping the settings and alarm icon, I can see all the different presents available
to the patient.
If I want to change any of the settings, all I have to do is scroll down and find the setting
that I want to change.
For example, the patient’s breath rate is currently set at 10 breaths per minute.
If I want to change that to 12 breaths per minute, all I’d have to do is hit the EDIT
button, adjust to 12 breaths per minute, hit ACCEPT and the setting has been changed and
implemented.
If I wanted to change the ventilation mode that VOCSN offers, and VOCSN offers a full
complement of ventilation modes, including pressure, volume and spontaneous modes of
ventilation, you can simply do so by hitting the EDIT button here.
Once you’ve adjusted the patient’s ventilation settings, you can simply exit the settings
screen and exit the ventilation screen and you’re back to the therapy screen.
VOCSN is capable of providing three different sources of oxygen.
I have the internal oxygen concentrator that, again, can do six liters per minute of oxygen
equivalent.
I also have the ability to access high-pressure oxygen, which you can get from the wall or
a tank, and you can also hook up a low-pressure oxygen concentrator to VOCSN.
By clicking on the oxygen therapy icon, I can see again three different presents.
To adjust any of the oxygen concentrator settings, all I have to do is click again on the settings
and alarm icon.
By going into the setting and alarm icon, I can adjust all the patient’s oxygen settings.
For example, here, I’m currently set up to an external high-pressure source.
If I want to adjust the FIO2 that the patient is receiving, I simply hit the EDIT and I
can select the FIO2 the patient is about to receive.
For example, let’s say I want to change it from 100 percent, which I had labeled as
max O2, down to 75 percent FIO2.
I just type in 75.
I click ACCEPT and I’ve adjusted the preset.
I can now exit out of the oxygen settings screen and I go back to the three preset screen.
Now let’s activate oxygen.
I’m going to activate the internal oxygen concentrator so you can hear what it sounds
like.
By simply selecting the START button, I have activated the oxygen concentrator.
As you can hear, the VOCSN internal oxygen concentrator is three times quieter than any
other oxygen concentrator currently on the market.
The oxygen concentrator alone took our team over eight years to develop and design, but
it’s designed to be very simple and easy to use.
If I want to stop the oxygen concentrator, all I have to do is simply hit the STOP OXYGEN.
I’ll confirm that I’ve stopped oxygen, and now I can go on to activating another
therapy.
If I exit the oxygen screen, I can go into the cough therapy screen here.
By selecting the cough icon, you’ll see three presets again.
Those three presets are going to look very similar to what you saw within ventilation
and oxygen concentrator.
In this example, I’ve programed three presets, a low, medium and high cough, just like what
you and I might experience.
We have a small cough sometimes and we have a big cough sometimes.
In our example, I’m going to go ahead and activate the small cough.
By activating the small cough, I’ll click the low icon here, and you can see all I have
to do is hit the START button.
By hitting START button, the cough therapy is automatically activated at a natural point
in the patient’s breathing cycle.
The cough therapy will continue, I’ve set it to two cough cycles here, until the cough
therapy is complete.
The great thing about how the VOCSN cough therapy works is you literally go from ventilation
to cough therapy and back to ventilation.
No more disconnecting the patient from different circuits or setting up another device.
The VOCSN cough therapy can be implemented literally with the touch of a button in seconds.
It’s much easier to use, and it’s much more comfortable.
By exiting back into the cough therapy, if I want to adjust any of the settings within
the cough therapy, all I have to do is go to the settings icon here.
By selecting the settings icon, I can see all the traditional settings that you’re
used to interacting with in traditional cough therapy.
For example, if I wanted to change the exsufflation time from one point five seconds to one second,
I’d select exsufflation time, hit the EDIT button, and I would simply type in one second.
I’d then hit ACCEPT, and I’ve changed the exsufflation time from one point five
seconds to one second.
I can then simply exit back.
I can see the three presets again, and I’ve completed my cough therapy for the patient.
The VOCSN hospital-grade suction system is designed to travel with you wherever you go.
We’ve redesigned the suction canister to make it easy to attach to VOCSN and to make
secretions a little more discreet.
To attach the suction canister, simply slide it in to the suction hole, lock the suction
canister, take your traditional suction tube that you’re used to using, attach it to
the back.
Once you’ve set up the suction system for use, you can connect the end of the tube to
any suction system that you’re used to using, including an open and closed suction catheter,
as well as Yankauers or anything else that’s comfortable for the patient to help clear
their airways.
To adjust the patient’s suction settings, I’d go back to the VOCSN therapy screen.
I’d simply look for the suction icon.
I’d select the suction icon, and as you can see here, I’ve got the traditional suction
gauge.
If I want to increase the patient’s vacuum pressure, all I’d have to do is find the
up arrow and increase it from what is right now 140, for example, to 175.
To activate the suction system, I just hit the start icon here.
By hitting the start icon, I’ve activated a very precise suction flow.
As you can see, the suction is activated and working.
To turn off the suction, I just hit the STOP button here.
Once you select the nebulizer icon, you’ll immediately see a timer.
To adjust the treatment duration, look for the up and down arrows.
If I want to increase the nebulizer treatment time, all I would have to do is look for the
up arrow.
In this case, we’re already set to five minutes.
I’m going to adjust the treatment duration to 10 minutes.
Now I’m ready to activate the nebulizer treatment.
The next step is to connect the nebulizer teacup to VOCSN.
VOCSN is adaptable with any nebulizer cup that you’d like to use.
You can simply connect the nebulizer to the nebulizer port on the other side of VOCSN.
You can then connect it to the patient’s circuit.
In our example, we’ll keep the nebulizer outside of the patient’s circuit, so you
can see how it actually works.
I’m going to go ahead and start the nebulizer treatment.
As you can see here, the VOCSN has activated the nebulizer.
Once the nebulizer is activated, the ventilation automatically compensates for the increased
flow of the nebulizer.
That’s just to make it a little bit more comfortable for the patient.
Typically, once the 10-minute treatment duration is complete, VOCSN would automatically turn
off the nebulizer to save you an extra step.
In this case, we’ll save a little time and I’ll go ahead and hit the STOP button.
Once you’ve completed using all five VOCSN therapies, let’s check on our patient and
see how they’re doing.
To do that, simply use the monitors tab located on the VOCSN screen.
Moving from the therapy screen to the monitors tab, I can see nine visual monitors currently
available.
These nine monitors can all be customized.
VOCSN also features waveform monitoring.
To view the waveforms, simply go into the upper right-hand corner and select the waveforms
icon.
Once you’re in the waveforms screen, you can select between three different waveform
options.
I’m currently showing you the flow and the pressure.
To change the waveforms that you’re seeing, I can select this bottom left-hand button
to see the pressure, flow and volume waveforms.
VOCSN’s waveforms are very accurate.
As you can see here, as I play with the patient’s lung, that information is immediately conveyed
and displayed to VOCSN.
To exit the waveform screen, all you have to do is hit the EXIT button.
VOCSN includes comprehensive therapy tracking.
Because VOCSN integrates all five therapies, we can literally track and see how the patient
is using each therapy, at what setting and when.
For example, if I go into the events log, I can scroll down and see everything that’s
happened on VOCSN.
For example, I recently initiated a cough therapy.
Let’s see how that cough therapy was used.
I can see at what preset, what the flow was, the date and the time.
This helps you monitor patient compliance with what the doctor’s orders are, and it
helps you see if there are any trends as you use different therapies.
VOCSN is simple mobile and care changing.
It takes all the different operating systems that was five different devices and puts them
into one easy-to-use operating system.
It's 75% lighter you don't have as many power cords and cables a lot easier to transport.
And it's care changing, it's peace of mind.
It allows both the caregiver and the patient to live a happier and easier life.