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The Remnova 

Complete Bite Block

Safe. Clean. Effective. Essential. Easy to use.

  • The Remnova Complete Bite Block is physician designed and expertly engineered to protect patients’ teeth, mouths, and lives.

  • Our device is an oral, soft plastic device that is both a bite block and endotracheal tube (ETT) stabilizer.


Made in USA

FDA Registered

Patent Pending 

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Why the Remnova Complete Bite Block

is Essential

Problems:

  • Patients emerging from anesthesia can forcefully bite down. This can lead to dental damage, oral lacerations, hypoxia, negative pressure pulmonary edema, and death.

  • Endotracheal tubes can move out of proper position. This may lead to hypoxia, airway emergency, brain damage, and death.


Current Insufficient Procedure:

  • Crudely hand rolled gauze taped together and shoved into the patient’s mouth.

  • Taping the endotracheal tube against the patient’s tongue, lips and cheeks to the side of their face.

Advanced Solution from

Nathaniel G. Stamm, M.D.

The Remnova

Complete Bite Block

Bite Block and Endotracheal

Tube Stabilizer

Surgery

Extensive medical research exhibits:

Bite blocks are imperative and current practice is ineffective.

  • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA): “the previously recommended gauze bite block cannot prevent endotracheal tube perforation... a reliable device that provides both protection of the patient’s oropharynx [tongue, teeth, and lips] and protection of the endotracheal tube should be used” (25)


  • British Journal of Anaesthesia: "The practice of using a Guedel [oral] airway as a bite block may be detrimental to the patient and should be discouraged" (21)

  • Experts recommend using a “purpose-designed bite block

    • ​Reinforced ET Tube ineffective (20)

  • Basics of Anesthesia: "a bite block should be placed to prevent occlusion of the endotracheal tube" (36)


  • “The routine use of bite blocks may reduce the incidence of biting the LMA [laryngeal mask airway].” (16)

  • Over 1 in 4 [25%] of patients have complications caused by biting on removal of their laryngeal mask airway [LMA] while awake, and 1 in 17 while anaesthetised. (16)

    • Complete Bite Block fits

              securely under LMA

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WHY BITE BLOCKS WITH ET TUBE STABILIZERS ARE NEEDED:

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DENTAL AND ORAL TRAUMA

  • 40% of injuries sustained during anesthesia are dental damage. (6)

  • 1 in 20 patients have lips or tongues injured during anesthesia.

    • Potentially greater as often unreported. (23)

  • 6.9% Incidence of oral tissue trauma after the administration of general anesthesia. (22)

  • “63 percent of claims against anesthetists arise from damage to teeth.” (1)

  • Dental injuries can be reported and marked into National Practitioner Data Bank.” (8)

  • Patient quality of life suffers and death can occur due to dental injury incidents. (2)

DEATH FROM BITING ET TUBE 

  • Case of death: biting and inhaling ET tube: "Chest X-Ray of Patient After Second Intubation [Postmortem]" (35)

  • (10)

NEGATIVE PRESSURE PULMONARY EDEMA FROM BITING ET TUBE 

  • (16, 19, 27)

TONGUE

NECROSIS 

  • (37)

INHALING GAUZE BITE BLOCK 

  • (28)

ACCIDENTAL EXTUBATION 

  • (17)

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Operating Room

High costs associated with maintaining current dangerous status quo:

  • $36 to $37 per minute mean cost of operating room time

    • Every 30 seconds costs ~$18.50 in the O.R. (32)


  • ~$1,239 inflation adjusted mean dental repair cost and increasing (13)


  • Cost of hospital stay from negative pressure pulmonary edema

    • 25 year old, otherwise healthy female required 6 day stay (31)

    • ~$13,356 average 6 day ICU stay (33)

    • ~$2,226 average 1 day ICU stay (33)

  • More than 120,000 incidents of unplanned or uncontrolled extubation occur yearly in the perioperative environment and ICU resulting in:

    • Significant complications

    • Increased costs: $40,992 total increased cost of an unplanned extubation

    • Increased hospital lengths of stay (29)

  • “Adverse outcomes associated with respiratory events constitute the single largest class of injury in the American Society of Anesthesiology Closed Claims Study (522 of 1541 cases; 34%).

    • Death or brain damage occurred in 85% of cases"

    • +$200,000 median cost of settlement or jury award (18)

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