Royal Philips announced the European launch of the fan V680 for hospital respiratory care, offering invasive and non-invasive ventilation. The solution is designed for a seamless transition to natural breathing ventilation, and helps improve patient care and minimise infection rates associated with the fan. The V680 fan joins the existing portfolio of solutions Philips respiratory care hospital patient-centered designed with the advice of physicians, to provide high quality care and comfort at a lower cost.

"To ensure optimal respiratory care and reduced asynchrony, fans should be safe, effective, easy to apply and adapt to the changing condition of patients," said Professor F. Javier Belda , head of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Valencia , Spain. "The V680 offers ways to invasive and non-invasive ventilation and flexible options mask. This helps my team to facilitate rapid transitions therapy and keeps the patient as comfortable as possible, while its clinically proven safety record reaffirms".

"In respiratory care struggle to advance our technologies to improve patient comfort and care beyond traditional mechanical ventilation," said Arne Cohrs , Head of Sales and Marketing Therapeutic Care, Patient Care and Monitoring Solutions, Philips Healthcare EMEA. "The V680 fan has been developed in partnership with physicians, leading to a custom technology that can be adjusted simply and quickly to meet patient needs. Our goal is to speed the time to noninvasive ventilation, ultimately reducing hospital stays and associated cost burden. "

The noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has become the standard of care for the management of acute respiratory failure, but there is a risk of leakage around the mask that can interfere with the performance of the fan. As a result, the patient-ventilator asynchrony, defined as a lack of corresponding inspiratory time between the patient and the ventilator inflation time, occurs in almost 25 per cent of intubated patients. These high rates of asynchrony is associated with an increased incidence of weaning failure and tracheotomy, prolonged mechanical ventilation, fatigue, greater need for sedation and longer hospital stays.

A recent study comparing the patient-ventilator synchrony during ICU between VIN, VIN transport fans, found that use of a fan VIN very ill patients led to a significant reduction in the incidence of patient-ventilator asynchrony. In addition, fans dedicated NIV a standardised behavior exposed during the investigation, the ability to prevent or delay the automatic activation cycles while a short lag activation despite the presence of leakage remains.

The Philips V680 Ventilator is available in several European markets in early 2015. The US release is pending 510 (k).