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PERCUSSIONAIRE® CORPORATION
AN INTRODUCTION TO PERCUSSIONAIRE® CORPORATION

HOSPITAL AND HOME BREATHING RESPIRATORS

The Percussionaire® Corporation manufactures and distributes the fourth generation of Dr. Bird’s INTRAPULMONARY PERCUSSIVE VENTILATION (IPV®) and VOLUMETRIC DIFFUSIVE RESPIRATION (VDR®) PERCUSSIONATORS® AS WELL AS THEIR DERIVATIVES AND ASSOCIATED ACCESSORIES.

Classically Dr. Bird’s first three generations of universal assister controller mechanical breathing devices (1946-1978) were called Respirators.

The current generation of electronic pressure volume cycled devices have been called ventilators and are designed for the mechanical ventilation of lungs which do not have peripheral diffuse bronchiolar airway and alveolar obstructive diseases. Pressure volume oriented ventilators will produce hyperinflational barotrauma within PREFERENTIAL PULMONARY AIRWAYS.

Dr. Bird’s fourth generation of percussive lung recruitment pneumatic breathing devices, called Percussionators®, are designed as powerful ventilators that maintain and also have a lung protective strategy. They recruit obstructed bronchial airways and their alveoli without the hyperinflational barotraumatic potential of over inflating PREFERENTIAL Airways.

Therefore, there is a major difference between electronic pressure volume ventilators designed for lung maintenance in patients without diffuse bronchiolar airway obstructions or PREFERENTIAL airways, and Percussionators® which are designed to maintain, recruit and protect lung structures.

Advanced Percussive Sub Tidal delivery Lung Recruitment Percussionators® are designed to recruit the obstructed lungs of COPD patients who have PREFERENTIAL airways, without producing hyperinflational Barotrauma. After lung recruitment the Perussionators® become highly effective pulmonary airway secretion clearance and maintenance ventilators, with exceptional weaning provisions.
 

THE PHASITRON REVOLUTIONIZING LUNG RECRUITMENT
WAS CONCEIVED BY FORREST M BIRD, M.D., PhD., ScD

Dr. Bird created Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV®) to increase the quality of life for HOME CARE patients of all ages with exertional breathing problems. IPV® also often can save the lives of hospitalized cardiopulmonary patients with advanced HEART- LUNG clinical management problems.

THE PHASITRON® INJECTRON® NEBULIZER
BREATHING HEAD ASSEMBLY

DURING THERAPEUTIC LUNG RECRUITMENT (TLR(tm)) THE PASITRON BECOMES THE RESPIRATOR POSITIONED AT THE PATIENT'S PROXIMAL AIRWAY. SERVING AS AN INJECTOR EXHALATION VALVE REFERENCING AMBIENT, IT INSTANTANEOUSLY REGULATES INSPIRATORY FLOW RATE BY ADJUSTING THE PROGRAMMED INSPIRATORY AIR FLOW VELOCITY TO PRESSURE FEEDBACK FROM CONSTANTLY CHANGING INTRAPULMONARY LUNG RESISTANCES.

THUS, THE PHASITRON® SERVES AS A FLUIDIC CLUTCH AGAINST THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AIRWAY, WHICH IS EXPLAINED BY BERNOULLIAN LOGIC.

THEREFORE THE PERCUSSIONAIRE® PHASITRON® PROVIDES FOR A BASIC LUNG PROTECTIVE STRATEGY TO PREVENT PREFERENTIAL AIRWAY BAROTRAUMA.

 
The patient breathes through a physiological interface called a Phasitron® delivering high flow sub tidal mini-bursts of air into the lungs at rates of from 100-300 times each minute. During the delivery of the percussive bursts of air into the lungs, a continued wedge pressure is maintained to stabilize the pulmonary airways while a percussive high velocity flow penetrates the airways and enhances endobronchial secretion mobilization. During therapeutic percussion, a dense aerosol mist which serves to reduce the adhesive and cohesive forces of retained airway secretions is delivered into the lungs. Also during the therapeutic percussive interval, there is a cyclical intrapulmonary exchange of respiratory gases which serve to flush out carbon dioxide and renew oxygen. This therapeutic lung recruitment (TLR™) is administered by the IPV® and VDR® families of Percussionator® ventilators.

The following cardio-respiratory patient pictures are of typical routine patient populations, which are highly manageable with a single IPV® or VDR® Percussionator® ventilator, calibrated with higher frequency percussive Sub Tidal delivery schedules:

Loading a badly injured Helicopter Transport patient, breathing on  a  Percussionaire® TXP® Acute Care Percussionator®.
 

THE BIRD SPACE TECHNOLOGY AIR EVACUATION HELICOPTER
 

A battlefield ready US Army Corpsman equipped to breathe for injured soldiers during combat operations.

Hospitalized COPD patient receiving Percussionaire® IPV® therapy for an acute chest infection.
 

HOME CARE (COPD) patient self administering daily routine IPV®.