Vibralung® Acoustical Percussor receives FDA 510(k) Clearance

Hi everyone, I don't want to be overly commercial and will keep this as brief as possible, but I just wanted to announce that Westmed, Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance to market for its Vibralung® Acoustical Percussor on May 23, 2014. The official press releases will occur soon and the product launch will take place in late summer. The Westmed website is being modernized and updated and the new web site will also be relaunched soon along with a comprehensive family of web pages devoted to the Vibralung. I'll make an announcement when those sites are up and running. The operating theory of the Vibralung Acoustical Percussor is to vibrate the "column" of air in the tracheobronchial tract, using sound waves, which also vibrates the different airways and the mucus at their specific Resonant Frequencies (RFs). This is called "sympathetic resonance," and a good real-world example is when a car pulls up next to yours with its stereo system pumping out at such extremely high volume that it causes your car to rattle and vibrate. This is what is accomplished in the lungs during therapy with the Vibralung. In short, the Vibralung Acoustical Percussor is an acoustic airway clearance device that applies sound waves directly to the airway opening through a mouthpiece during both inspiration and exhalation while the subject is breathing normally. A veterinary version has been in use for many years to clear the lungs of race horses and now Westmed has develope...
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