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Redesigned for today

The McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA) is designed to comfortably and safely maintain a patient’s airway. This was created by an anesthesia professional to address the gaps with current airway devices.
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McMurray medical wins

the 2023 ANA Innovation
“Nurse-led Team” Award!

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McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA)

Overview

The MEA is an innovative distal pharyngeal airway (DPA) designed to help improve safety, outcomes, provider satisfaction and reduce healthcare costs. 

Benefits
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  • Fast and easy to use

  • Effectively maintains airway

  • Relieves difficult mask ventilation 

  • Secure placement 

  • EGD bite block-compatible 

Oral airways have not been significantly redesigned in nearly 100 years. The MEA is designed specifically to eliminate issues associated with traditional airway usage.

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How it works

How it works

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Increases Patient Comfort

  • Flexible material helps to eliminate sore, scratchy throats 

  • The MEA is longer, softer, and smaller in diameter compared to traditional oral airways

  • Decreases the need for a chin lift or jaw thrust, reducing postoperative chin and jaw discomfort

  • Helps increase ability to breathe with ease by eliminating upper airway obstruction

  • Elongated shock-absorbing bite block shifts the bite to the molars, decreasing risk of dental damage 

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Helps Reduces Airway Risks

  • Provides a patent airway to improve patient oxygen saturation 

  • By using the optional 15 mm connector with the anesthesia circuit, the longer airway delivers oxygen closer to the lungs and away from the surgical area, reducing fire risk

  • Large flange reduces risk of the airway dislodging

  • Easy to place alongside an upper endoscopy bite block

  • Attaches to anesthesia
    circuit or bag valve mask
    (BVM) to deliver apneic or
    passive oxygenation
    during intubation

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Improves Provider Satisfaction

  • Easy to insert, with no need for lubricant or tongue depressor

  • Decreases the need for a chin lift or jaw thrust, keeping providers' hands free for other tasks​

  • Offers an alternative method to improving oxygen saturation during routine or difficult mask ventilation

  • Supplied in individual small pouches for easy and convenient stocking and use

The McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA) Difference

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The MEA Difference
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