✦ The purpose of using an HME filter is heat & moisture exchange, resistance, & filtering particles.
✦ HME filter is a passive Humidification system
✦ Facilitating with BVF (bacterial & viral filter) helps to provide effective protection against various types of particles, including bacteria, viruses, and moisture droplets.
✦ HME filters keep the respiratory circuit and the patient safe and secure from any kind of contamination.
✦ Single Use, Sterile, Non-Pyrogenic.
Delight Heat and Exchange Moisturizers Filter (HMEF) is used in mechanically ventilated patients and intended to help prevent complications due to
“drying of the respiratory mucosa," such as mucus plugging and endotracheal tube (ETT) occlusion. HMEF is one type of commercial humidification system.