The Innovative  Salter-Lite™  Adult Oral/Nasal and Nasal Only Monitoring and Sampling Cannula for Sleep Diagnostic Studies

The New Salter-Lite™ cannulas are designed to deliver clear signals for real time pressure/snore monitoring and/or gas sampling capabilities from the facepiece nasal prongs or the Oral “Trunk.” The soft lumen “Trunk” and reduced size of the facepiece and nasal prongs give a patient extra comfort and fit to deliver the best possible signal to the pressure transducer device {BiNAPS^®}.  Available in Infant, Small Pediatric, Pediatric and Adult sizes. They are designed to provide the same outstanding performance you will experience with any of the Salter-Style^® series of Sleep Diagnostic Cannulas. Available with an optional Hydrophobic and Anti-Microbial Filter.

• Adult Oral/Nasal or Nasal only sampling cannulas
   
• Small facepiece size and lightweight helps reduce any patient anxiety
   
• Airflow Pressure/Snore monitoring and ETCO₂ sampling capabilities
   
• Optional Hydrophobic, Anti-Microbial Filter.

The Salter-Lite™ Sleep Diagnostic Cannulas are the newest addition to a long tradition of pioneering innovative designs for Adult, Infant, Newborn and Pediatric cannula patients that began over thirty years ago with the original Salter-Style^® nasal cannulas for patients requiring supplemental oxygen.

The Salter-Lite™ cannulas are designed with a smaller, lighter facepiece and head set tubing to assure a comfortable, secure, anatomical fit and reduce patient anxiety while providing the best possible signal integrity to the pressure transducer throughout the duration of the study. The “Lite” series are available in Adult, Infant, Small Pediatric and Pediatric sizes in a variety of cannula configurations to include nasal only or oral/nasal.

Salter-Lite™ sleep diagnostic cannulas are available in a wide array of models, configurations and sizes. They all are designed to meet the variety of unique requirements common to a sleep study. Our cannulas are designed to comfortably fit from pediatric to adult patients. Each style cannula is designed to provide the best possible patient signal for a pressure transducer device to process. This device in turn splits the signal into Airflow Pressure and Snore waveforms and passes that on to your lab based or portable PSG systems. There is a cannula configured for virtually any breathing pattern, mouth and nose, nose only, mouth only or for the patient that switches back and forth. To accomplish all of this satisfactorily the cannula must meet several very important requirements.

Easy to put on: 

The process of putting on a cannula, should not intimidate the patient. It should be an easy and simple process to reduce or prevent anxiety. The clinician or patient should be able to easily make adjustments for a comfortable secure fit, to obtain the optimum Airflow Pressure/Snore waveform signal.

Comfortable to wear:

The patient very quickly becomes unaware of it’s presence, because it fits naturally and should not hinder the sleep process.

Stays in place:

The cannula must remain in position and register the breath by breath signal data for the pressure transducer throughout the entire study. It must be able to accommodate patient movements and still deliver meaningful information for interpretation. No lost data or need to repeat a study!

Cost effective:

All Salter Labs^® cannulas are Latex Free, single-patient use cannulas. More and more studies are concluding that airflow pressure transducers¹ provide equal or superior signal data as compared to airflow temperature sensors ie. thermistors. {ThermiSense^®}  In some cases Nasal Cannulas² will provide data that can not be sensed and recorded by thermocouple devices³. To be compliant with the new AASM guidelines both thermal and pressure airflow monitoring is recommended**. Pressure transducers rapidly respond to all changes in airflow as they occur⁴ while a thermistor has a slower response to temperature deviations. A new generation of cost effective pressure transducers {BiNAPS^®} offer superb reliability, improved sensitivity, and more accurate pressure changes; previously available only with more costly research models.

Simple to use:

Place the over the ear style cannula on the patient and position it comfortably for them. Adjust the slide bolo for a secure and comfortable fit. Connect the signal transmitting 7 foot tube to the pressure transducer signal processing device. This device splits the signal and provides airflow pressure and snore output to the recorder being used to produce clear, concise waveforms for evaluation.

Cross contamination:

The cannula is a disposable, one time, single patient use device. All Salter Labs® cannulas are available with optional single use .2 micron hydrophobic, anti-microbial filter.

Adult and Pediatric sizes:

Experience has shown that many elderly or small featured adult patients are more comfortable with a pediatric size. It is important to use a size that is most comfortable for the patient. Some models are available with the ability to transmit simultaneously Airflow Pressure/Snore to the pressure transducer as well as End Tidal CO₂ ( ETCO₂) samples to a capnograph. It has been reported ETCO₂ data can be very relevant with pediatric patients^{5, 6}.