Just a short note to thank you for showing me the AeroEclipse Nebulizer. It has been a great asset. Since I started using the BAN for Pulmonary Function Testing at Clark & Daughtery, my testing time has been cut from 45 minutes to 25-30 minutes. I have not noticed any change from responsiveness of the medication and subjectively all of the patients I am testing like this nebulizer. Additionally, I have sent patients home with this nebulizer and they are telling me that their treatments are shorter and they are getting more benefit from each treatment. I am definitely on the cutting edge of Respiratory Therapy.

Lakeland, FL

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Just wanted to write to let you know how things have gone in regard to my facility's switching over to the AeroEclipse BAN. Well, we started using them back in January '05, so we have about six months experience with them now. You offered classes to my staff prior to switching from the more traditional nebs where you also answered all their questions. But as with any "change" there was resistance, doubt, grumbling, etc....

Part of the grumbling had to do with the fact that with the patients receiving their treatments via AeroEclipse I require my staff to stand next to the patient for the entire treatment. Of course I heard comments that patients were not going to want their treatment time shortened to perhaps only 3 mins when they are used to taking 15 - 20 min treatments. I had to listen to these comments/complaints for a while. I believe it was for about 4 - 6 weeks.

After that time, however, all of a sudden the staff started coming over. They began telling me of patient compliments and of how much better the patients were doing since we've been giving them their treatments with the BAN. Now they seem to have only good things to say in regard to the product.

Since initially going over the AeroEclipse, I have had patients actually call me in my office after their discharge from the hospital telling me how much better they have done using the AeroEclipse. I have had physicians tell me that their patients are much better as a result of this product. I had one physician call and ask me if I could come to their office and start a patient on therapy via AeroEclipse. Seems the patient was not progressing any further no matter what medication they tried with standard nebs. After one treatment using the AeroEclipse they felt much improved. They continued to use the AeroEclipse and are doing much better now.

Recently, our facility had a "mock" JCAHO survey. The surveyor had actually been a real JCAHO surveyor. She asked one of my staff "Do you stack treatments?" My team member answered "No, our manager switched to these new nebulizers six months ago that give better treatments and allow us to stay with each patient for the duration of their treatment." The surveyor loved that answer. She (the surveyor) made sure she contacted me to congratulate me on this. She took down the name of the product and now recommends the AeroEclipse when she surveys other facilities where treatments are done more than one at a time. I actually had one of the hospitals she recommended to call me.

I'm so glad to tell you that our conversion to the BANs has been a real success. It was a bit of a hard sell at first due to the increased cost over traditional nebs but has proven to be well worth it.

Thanks for your assistance in making this a success here.

Plant City, FL

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“Hello,    I’m a Respiratory Therapist and also a severe persistent asthmatic. During a recent hospitalization at UCSF, they gave me the AeroEclipse Nebulizer to use for my treatments.  I just wanted to say that... I love this new nebulizer!!   I’ve been an RT for 30 years and an asthmatic since birth.  The AeroEclipse is by far, the best nebulizer I have ever used ( on myself)   In fact, I even plugged it on my blog  www.baycitywalker.com.”
 
Crockett, CA

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“Soon after your in-service on the AeroEclipse, I was assigned to the Emergency Department.  Around noon that day, we got one of the worst non-intubated, asthmatics I’ve seen in a long time.  She was sitting, hunched over, drooling with non-existent breath sounds and a rapidly dropping respiratory rate.  The paramedics had an Albuterol treatment running on one of their nebulizers.  As per our protocol, I started three back-to-back Albuterol/Atrovent nebulizer treatments.  I grabbed one of the sample AeroEclipse Nebs and put it on her via an aerosol mask.  As this was running, as you might imagine, I was grabbing the intubation box.  By the third treatment, she was sitting up, her oxygen saturation was unreadable at the beginning of these treatments, but by now had risen to 90%.  At this point, she had sat up, was looking around and her respiratory rate had stabilized.  The nurse had begun to start an IV, but when he stuck her, she came alive, grabbed the tubing and told us that she didn’t want that! 

This patient improved from needing intubation and possibly CPR to a patient who only needed periodic treatments and monitoring and I attribute her improvement to the amazing performance of the AeroEclipse.”

Houston, Texas

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