These clinician-inspired enhancements include the taper-shaped TaperGuard cuff. The TaperGuard cuff may help protect the lungs and reduce tracheal impact by reducing fluid leakage by 99% and exerting 18.6% less lateral wall pressure on the trachea. In addition, TaperGuard cuff technology helps improve a clinician’s ability to provide mechanical ventilation with the ability to titrate ventilator air leak that is 65% greater than with earlier-generation Shiley tubes.

Features

• A thinner, less bulky cuff reduces insertion force by 39%
• A beveled tip on all product configurations eases percutaneous insertion
• The Shiley™ flexible tracheostomy products use sizing (I.D., O.D., length and tube curvature) that is similar to those used in earlier Shiley products