Philips new gel pillow variant for the Dreamwear mask. This mask comes with the standard existing Dreamwear frame, headgear and wraps but includes the new gel pillows which sit snuggly into the nostril, instead of the existing under the nose seals.
The DreamWear Gel Nasal CPAP Mask with Headgear - Fit Pack (All Cushions Included with Medium Frame) is a minimal contact mask designed to help accommodate users of multiple sleeping positions.
Philips Respironics is updating IT’S existing Contraindications and Warnings to the following
Contraindication: Use of the Mask is Contraindicated for Patients and their Household Members, Caregivers, and Bed Partners that may be in close Vicinity to the Patients using the Masks, that have implanted devices that may be affected by Magnets, including but not limited to:
- Pacemakers
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Neurostimulators
- Magnetic Metallic implants/ electrodes/valves placed in upper limbs, torso, or Higher (i.e Neck and Head)
- CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) shunts (e.g VP (ventriculi peritoneal) shunt)
- Aneurysm Clips
- Embolic Coils
- Intracranial aneurysm intravascular flow disruption devices
- Metallic cranial plates, screws, burr hole covers, and bone substitute devices
- Metallic Splinters in Eye
- Ocular implants ( e.g ., glaucoma implants, retinal implants)
- Certain contact lenses with metal
- Implants to restore hearing or balance that have an implanted magnet (such as cochlear implants, implanted conduction hearing devices and auditory brainstem implants)
- Magnetic denture implants
- Metallic gastrointestinal clips
- Metallic Stents (e.g., aneurysm, coronary, tracheobronchial, biliary)
- Implanted Ports and Pumps(e.g., insulin pumps)
- Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulators
- Devices Labelled as MR (magnetic resonance) unsafe
- Magnetic Metallic implants not labelled for MR or not evaluated for safety in a magnetic field
