Passy-Muir Inc.

Tracheostomy & Ventilator Swallowing and Speaking Valves

Passy-Muir Tracheostomy & Ventilator Swallowing and Speaking Valves are the ONLY speaking valves FDA indicated for ALL of the following uses: Communication Facilitates Secretion Management
Improves Swallowing Expedites Weaning & Decannulation
May Reduce Aspiration      Restores Positive Airway Pressure
Ventilator Application Facilitates Infection Control
Improves Olfaction Interchangeability Between
  Tracheostomy and Ventilator Use
• Improves Oxygenation

Restores Subglottic Pressure
Only the closed position "No Leak" design of the PMV reestablishes a closed respiratory system and restores subglottic pressure, which improves swallowing and may reduce aspiration.

Video Fluoroscopy
with PMV: No Aspiration
Video Fluoroscopy
without PMV: Aspiration
   

Ventilator Application
The only Speaking Valve that can be used interchangeably on or off the ventilator for Pediatrics and Adults.

The PMVs offer ventilator dependent patients the opportunity to speak uninterrupted without having to wait for the ventilator to cycle, and without being limited to a few words at a time due to loss of air through the tracheostomy tube as experienced by patients using "leak speech".