Hill-Rom’s MetaNeb system shows surgical safety benefits

Hill-Rom's MetaNeb system has been shown to slash the number of cases of postoperative pulmonary problems, researchers have found. 

MetaNeb offers a combination of lung expansion, the clearance of secretions and aerosol delivery all together in order to help clear the lungs more effectively than the use of individual treatments to achieve each of these ends separately, researchers from the Carolinas Health Care System, the University of Pennsylvania, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University found. 

Their study, presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress, found that the improved outcomes for patient breathing among the sample of 419 people were such that the average duration of the hospital stay was cut by 1.6 days. 

By improving breathing in patients in a postoperative state, this helped reduce the mortality risk. 

Director of trauma research for the Carolinas HealthCare System Toan Huynh said: "As much as 40 percent of patients may have trouble breathing once a procedure is completed, which is why today's news is such an advance." 

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