MEDAP S AIR

Powerful tapping
unit for aspiration
with compressed air

That is the safety valve at the patient side in accordance with the European standard, and it prevents compressed air from flowing toward the patient if the outlet for compressed air becomes blocked.

The compressed air flows downward below the thickened part of the housing. Thanks to this outlet that points downward, the MEDAP S AIR is extremely narrow with a width of 52 mm so that it can even be used when space is limited, for example in an intensive care unit.

The mark indicating that the tapping unit creates vacuum is located in the vacuum gauge ('Vacuum'). On the back of the tapping unit, the mark 'AIR SUPPLY' clearly shows that the tapping unit must be inserted into a terminal unit for compressed air.

In some intensive care units, the terminal units are in wall channels. An equipment rail often runs just beneath the terminal units. If an overflow protection device is used below the MEDAP S AIR, it could collide with the equipment rail of the wall channel. Therefore, the length of the DIN gas pin was designed in such a way that the MEDAP S AIR cannot come into conflict with the equipment rail even if an overflow protection device is used.

In accordance with the international standard ISO 10079 for medical suction equipment, the use of a hydrophobic overflow protection device and a bacterial filter is mandatory. The MEDAP S AIR has the same connection as the MEDAP S VAC. That means the same adapter, and therefore the same hydrophobic bacterial and viral filter, can be connected to the MEDAP S AIR as to the MEDAP S VAC.