Provide the Best Care to Your Patients

As an Audiologist, you always want to provide the best care you can to your patients. By recommending the SafeAwake as a smoke alarm aid to your patients who are deaf or have varying levels of hearing loss, you are providing them with the best standard of care nationwide.

The most effective notification is tactile notification. The SafeAwake intermittent bed shaker is 18% more effective at awakening than the continuous signal bed shaker for the hard of hearing.

Hearing aid users are at a disadvantage when it comes to waking effectiveness in a fire emergency. When your patients remove their hearing aids or turn down the volume to sleep, they lose their high frequency hearing. Conventional smoke alarms operate at 3,200 Hz. The SafeAwake emits a low frequency (520 Hz), high decibel sounding alarm. If the patient has poor residual low frequency hearing at higher decibel levels and removes their hearing aids at night, they will be less likely to hear the low frequency alarm. The tactile bed shaker is their best means of notification. The bed shaker operates in sync with the low frequency alarm and flashing white light when the SafeAwake senses your smoke alarm sounding.

By owning a SafeAwake, a person increases their chances of survival with additional methods of fire notification. Remember, in a fire seconds count. View the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) video under Fire Facts that shows us fire burns exponentially, not linearly. The SafeAwake smoke alarm aid for those with hearing loss was created by fire safety engineers. Who would you trust for fire advice regarding fire safety?

To learn more about the waking effectiveness of both tactile devices and low frequency for people with normal hearing and various level of hearing loss, read The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Report on Smoke Detector Alert for the Deaf by CSE - 2005.

Features	1. Indicator light tells user device is active 2. Plug in power supply 3. Battery back up in case of power loss 4. Automatic shutoff and reset after two minutes
Advantages	1. Fastest sound reception from a T3 smoke alarm 2. The intermittent bed shaker is 18% more effective than the continuous signal bed shaker 3. Low frequency sound (520 Hz) is 30% more effective than high frequency sound (3,200 Hz) 4. Sleep more peacefully through the night assured of fire safety notification
Benefits	Simplicity - Simply plug into any bedside outlet and sit the SafeAwake on a bedside table or hang on the wall. The bed shaker fits directly under the mattress. Click here to view our instructional video. Universality - Responds to any U.S. domestic or commercial smoke alarm produced after 1996. Reliability - Equipped with a battery system that provides back up power in the event of electric power failure. Portability - Easy to pack and small enough to fit into a travel bag. Warranty - Comes with a two year limited warranty. Made in the U.S.A.

If you’d like to learn even more about SafeAwake, you can view a study of SafeAwake conducted at a Johns Hopkins affiliated Sleep Laboratory by clicking here. To read a copy of the manual, please click here.