The people and institutions at the front-lines of patient care need a practical, safe, and effective method to decontaminate respirators. Helios is different from vapor, light or liquid-based decontamination methods.
With some methods, respirators with cellulose or cotton cannot be decontaminated. Helios is safe for all respirator types and brands.
Helios can decontaminate dry respirators in 30 minutes. Moist respirators can be dried and decontaminated in 1 hour.
Respirators never leave the building. Helios is a practical, on-site decontamination solution that uses a space-efficient thermal decontamination unit that can be deployed on a floor, unit, central location, or tactical environments with a standard 120V electrical outlet. Need to scale up? Helios can scale from hundreds to millions of respirators. Need to track respirators? No problem, Helios provides an easy-to-use accountability system to track respirators by owner and decontamination cycles.
Helios is safe for people and the environment because it only uses heat to decontaminate and avoids hazardous materials that require special handling.
Humans expel about 250 ml of water when breathing throughout the day. As a result, respirators will become moist as they are used. Vapor based methods require a dry respirator to effectively decontaminate. Helios dries and decontaminates respirators at the same time. This allows Helios to decontaminate moist respirators from hours of use more quickly and effectively.