Aerosolve Helmet

The Aerosolve helmet is a compact, personal negative pressure environment worn by patients—isolating any potential aerosol risks and preventing further transmission.

Value Proposition

By creating a personal negative pressure environment for patients with infectious respiratory conditions, the helmet enables the use of Heated High Flow Nasal Cannula (HHFNC) or nebulized medications. This can spare the need for mechanical ventilation, personal protective equipment (PPE) or speed the transition from a mechanical ventilator. Additionally, in crowded spaces such as waiting rooms, the helmet can spare other patients or clinicians from exposure to infectious conditions.

Competitive Advantage

  • Rapid setup and readily scalable

  • Allows clinicians to use all the tools in their medical arsenal without fear of contracting the illness themselves 

  • Spares Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

  • Comfortable for the patient

  • Beneficial in isolated environments (ground and air ambulances, cruise ships, aircraft carriers, etc.)

  • Value beyond pandemics – useful in other respiratory conditions where risk of infectious transmissibility is high

  • Mitigates need for negative pressure rooms

  • Improved confidence and comfort among healthcare workers

  • Lower cost components like the tent itself are “throw away” eliminating costly and time consuming decontamination. More expensive components like the blower motor are retained.

Unique Features

  • Multiple access points allow a greater number of medical and surgical procedures

  • Comfortable: allows the patient to be supine, semi-recumbent, or seated upright

  • Transportable across care environments

  • The device can be used with conventional operating tables and other standard surgical equipment

  • 50 times greater number of air exchanges than a Negative Pressure Room (NPR)

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Licensing Information
Inspirex, LLC in 2020

Principal Investigators
Kevin Ward, MD
Ben Bassin, MD
Sridhar Kota, PhD

Intellectual Property
Invention Disclosure # 2020-383
Patent Applications Submitted

Solution Sheet
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Image courtesy of project team

MARKET OPPORTUNITY
Negative pressure rooms can cost upwards of $120,000. The helmet will cost approximately 1/10th as much AND have 20 times more air exchanges than negative pressure rooms. InspireRx is seeking additional funding while awaiting EUA approval.

Contact InspireRx for more information about investment and partnership opportunities.

Funding History

  • Substantial additional departmental, school and center based support

Funding Organizations

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