MEASURE • MASTER • DELIVER

Dedicated to Improving Survival Through Safer Manual Ventilation

SotairIQTM — Advanced Manual Ventilation Training

Sotair® — Flow-Guided Ventilation for Clinical Use

It's Clear, Ventilation Improves Outcomes!

Cardiac Arrest1,2,3

4X Increase in OHCA survival w/ adequate ventilation (1,976 pts) 7% Decrease OHCA survival w/ small adult BVMs (1,994 pts)

Opioid Overdose4

2.44X Increase in survival w/ compression + ventilation CPR vs. compressions only

Traumatic Brain Injury5,6,7

The 3 H-Bombs: Hypoxia, Hypotension, Hyperventilation increase mortality significantly:

  • 1 Hypoxic event: 2X mortality
  • 1 Episode of SBP <90 mmHg: 2X+ mortality, >1 episode: Up to 8X mortality
  • Hyperventilation: 2 to 5.9X mortality

Severe TBI patients with field airway interventions saw 6.44X higher survival to admission and 3.52X to discharge with guidelines.

Common solutions—like using pediatric or small adult manual resuscitators on adult patients. have led to severe underventilation and worse patient outcomes.3,9
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High Variability in Performance

Manual ventilation is the standard method of providing emergency ventilatory support, yet it remains highly variable—even among well-trained and experienced providers.

High-stress emergencies and limited safeguards make manual ventilation prone to errors: too fast (hyperventilation), too much volume (over-ventilation), too slow (hypoventilation), or too little volume (underventilation), all of which increase the risk of serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia, lung injury, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), and even death.

98%

Of responders delivered at least one breath that was inadequate or excessive per 90-second period.8

Manual ventilation is a Low-Frequency, High-Risk Skill — Solved with an Integrated Training & Clinical Solution

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SotairIQTM Training Solution

Master Flow,
Master Manual Ventilation


  • Supports 2025 American Heart Association recommended learning modules.
  • Build muscle memory & proficiency through coaching and gamified training
  • Never before seen Insights into ventilation parameters

EMS World Innovation Awards 2022

Sotair® Clinical Solution

Flow Control Safety for Manual Ventilation

  • Your least trained providers can now ventilate as well as your best providers, even in high stress emergencies
  • Use in patients with various lung conditions (eg. asthma, COPD, ARDS, pneumothorax)

Rated 5 out of 5
“I want my providers to see, not just believe, that they’re delivering high-quality care. SotairIQ™ provides that visibility during training—real-time proof that our crews are ventilating effectively and consistently, with measurable improvement and greater confidence. ”
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Kevin Joles
Division Chief of EMS Olathe FD, KS

Awards & Support

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Awarded a Technology/Therapeutic Development Grant as a part of the Military Medical Research and Development program by the Department of Defense (DoD)
Awarded three grants by NIH: SBIR/STTR Phase II, CRP and CAPCAT UMASS Memorial Medical Center
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Awarded Phae I SBIR contract by the AFWERX/AF Ventures initiative of the US Air Force
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Awarded Phase I & II SBIR/STTR grants by the National Science Foundation
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Sotair (1st & 2nd gen) was selected as a winner in 2019 and 2022 for the EMSWORLD Innovation Awards
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Awarded a Technology/Therapeutic Development Grant as a part of the Military Medical Research and Development program by the Department of Defense (DoD)
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Out of 130 companies, SafeBVM was 1 of 2 companies that were awarded grants
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Won Gold Prize in the 2019 European Design Awards
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Awarded a small business grant for the development and commercialization of SafeBVM's technology
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Selected for the 2021 program focused on companies looking to improve care, reduce costs and create new efficient approaches to problems within the medical industry
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Selected into the highly competitive NASDAQ Milestone Makers Program
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Sotair was published as a potential solution to reduce barotrauma, overventilation, and underventilation in periods of extended manual ventilation

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