Airway Clearance Therapy

With regular use, airway clearance therapy can reduce hospitalizations and infections due to respiratory conditions. Airway clearance therapy can help you breathe easier.

Certain diseases impair mucus production and cough function in the lungs. Poor mucus movement can obstruct airways and contribute to infection, inflammation, and airway injury.

Someone with airway clearance challenges may struggle with:1

Chronic or ineffective cough
Recurring chest/lung infections
Mucus retention or mucus plugging

If you have any of these symptoms, airway clearance therapy may be for you.

Why AffloVest

AffloVest® is a proven high frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) therapy designed to provide patients the freedom and mobility to customize and enhance airway clearance therapy, help mobilize lung secretions, and promote treatment adherence for patients struggling with chronic respiratory conditions. AffloVest is fully mobile during use, and does not use bulky generators or air bladder technology.

AffloVest is shown to be effective at:

Reducing antibiotic prescriptions
Decreasing hospitalizations
Reducing outpatient visits

With treatments often being prescribed for daily sessions, it’s important to have a therapy that fits into a patient’s daily life – not the other way around.

The preferred choice in airway clearance vests.

In a patient preference study, participants overwhelmingly preferred AffloVest over bladder-style vests for comfort, lifestyle, and use around others. Participants reported a 93% overall preference, 90% likelihood of daily use, and 93% preference for fit with lifestyle.

How it works

Our patented Direct Dynamic Oscillation™ technology utilizes eight oscillating motors to create individual pressure waves that target all lobes of the lungs. This technology was designed to mobilize secretions by mimicking manual chest physical therapy (CPT).

AffloVest has three levels of intensity to accommodate patient’s individualized needs and three unique modes designed to mimic hand CPT:

Percussion – All motors operate in a pulsed fashion using a regular rhythm.
Vibration – All motors operate continuously, providing deep oscillation of the thoracic cavity.
Drainage – All motors operate in a preprogrammed sequential fashion as therapy progresses up and down to mobilize secretions upward.

Airway Clearance Therapy

Diseases such as COPD, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, quadriplegia and other neuromuscular disorders can reduce lung function, increase mucus production and interfere with proper breathing. Increased mucus production and retention of excess mucus increase the risk of lung infections.

Effectively clearing mucus from the air passages is extremely important. Airway clearance therapy using traditional manual chest physiotherapy or HFCWO vest therapy can provide improvement both in pulmonary function and quality of life in patients with chronic hyper-secretive diseases.

HFCWO vest therapy can help loosen thick mucus secretions so it can be mobilized from your lungs by coughing. Clearing the airways may help decrease lung infections, reduce antibiotic use and hospitalization, and improve lung function.

The goals of AffloVest mechanical HFCWO therapy are to reduce the number of exacerbations and infections and to improve patient quality of life by reducing airway inflammation and mobilizing secretions.

AffloVest can be prescribed for: