SSEM Mthembu Medical (Pty) Ltd

SSEM Mthembu Medical is the leading distributor of electro-medical devices and medical consumables throughout Southern Africa. Our mission is to provide exceptional service, quality and innovative technology in the healthcare industry.

Founded in 1987, SSEM has grown to be an integral player in the medical industry with 14 divisions lead by experienced Product Managers, six national branches that are self-sufficient and more than 200 dedicated staff members across South Africa working for a common purpose.

Our client base spans the entire Southern African region. This is accomplished by strategic alliances in the African continent with direct representation in South Africa.

SideStream Reusable Nebulizer
The SideStream Reusable Nebulizer provides maximum aerosol quality and respirable output for the delivery of most commonly prescribed medications. The unique Venturi design offers faster drug delivery and shorter treatment times. It can be used for 6 months before replacing.

SideStream Disposable Nebulizer
The SideStream Disposable Nebulizer offers fast, efficient and economical drug delivery. The SideStream provides consistent drug delivery time after time and can be used with all commonly prescribed respiratory medications. It can be used for 2 weeks before replacing.

Faster Treatment Times
Faster treatment times (delivers 2.5 ml of drug output within 7 minutes)

Efficient Drug Delivery
Highly efficient (80% of drug output volume is below 5 microns in size). The SideStream’s active venturi system provides additional flow to the patient of up to 16 lpm above compressor output, resulting in faster treatment time. Traditional nebulizers are limited to the compressor’s flow output.

Economical
Reusable SideStream offers optimal patient care with minimal administrative effort. It can be used for 6 months before replacing. Disposable SideStream can be used in the same manner as the reusable Sidestream, but for no more than 2 weeks.

Optimal patient care
with minimal administrative effort.

Download: SideStream Nebulize

Wherever Personal Best goes—in the hospital, office, or home—it sets a new standard for convenience, compliance, and confidence.

And Personal Best goes anywhere. . .easily.
With a lightweight, self-contained, portable design that puts peak flow monitoring at your fingertips—or your patients’—all day long.

Plus, a rugged, sterilizible construction that helps it stand up to the roughest use day after day.

Personal Best encourages compliance with its comfortable oval mouthpiece and easy-to-use built-in handle. And it improves patient communication with its high-legibility scale and NAEPP-endorsed three-zone management system.

Available in both full range (60 – 810 l/min) and low range (50 – 390 l/min).

Features

Personal Best’s comfortable oval mouthpiece and easy-to-use built-in handle encourage compliance.

Handle
Handle converts into a carrying case for ultimate portability and protection.

Zones
Built-in flexible three-zone management system and easy-to-read numbers. The integrated three-zone asthma management system helps patients comply with treatment regimens. The color-coded indicators (located to the right of the scale) can be adjusted to delineate a patient's green, yellow, and red zones based on personal best peak flow.

Ranges
Available in Full (60-810 L/min) and Low (50-390 L/min) ranges.

Mouthpiece
Safety mouthpieces reduce the risk of cross-contamination during multi-patient screening, and the one-way valve prevents patients from inadvertently breathing in air through their meters during peak expiratory flow rate testing.

Life Span
Accuracy and reproducibility assured for a minimum of two years.

Quality Assurance
100% of Personal Best units are quality-control inspected at the factory before shipment.

Download: Personal Best Full & Low Range Peak Flow Meter

OptiChamber Advantage Valved Holding Chamber helps your patients get the best part of their asthma inhaler medication in the most efficient way. With optimal performance and optimal value, OptiChamber Advantage gives you and your patients the advantage in metered dose inhaler therapy. And OptiChamber Advantage is an ideal pediatric chamber that easily adapts to all patient needs. Multi-sized Pediatric Masks attach directly to the mouthpiece for superior fit and comfort when assisting infants and small children with inhaler medications. When no longer needed, the masks can be removed for optimal drug delivery without buying a new chamber. OptiChamber Advantge’s replaceable low-resistance valve is sensitive enough to respond to the lowest of pediatric flow rates. And its MDI adapter accommodates all CFC and HFA inhalers, making OptiChamber Advantage the most versatile and cost-effective product of its kind.

Size-Optimized Chamber
218 ml volume, 13 cm length x 4.7 cm diameter - Accommodates wider HFA aerosol plumes
OptiChamber’s optimal larger size makes more fine particle dose available for inhalation for patients of all ages 1,3
Drug output less sensitive to variations in patient technique (such as flow rate and delay time between MDI actuation and the start of inhalation)

Clear, Locking Mouthpiece
Clear mouthpiece allows caregiver to see the valve move on inspiration, to coordinate proper timing of MDI actuation, and to count patient breaths
Locking feature keeps mouthpiece and valve securely in place
Standard 22 mm O.D. for tracheal tube and other connections
Round shape encourages tongue to be placed below mouthpiece

Patented Valve System with Multiple Exhaust Ports
Prevents exhaled breath from entering the chamber
Vents exhaled breath around the circumference of the valve
Removable mouthpiece and valve allow for regular thorough cleaning

Replaceable One-Way Silicone Valve
Improved flexibility and texture – sensitive enough to respond to the lowest of pediatric flow rates
Durable and easy to clean
Extends product life

Detachable Masks

New multi-sized pediatric masks
Provide superior fit when treating infants and small children

Download: OptiChamber

For many years, Porta-neb has provided reliability,fast treatments and high quality aerosol therapy for patients.
Coupled with the SideStream Reusable handset,Porta-neb provides a highly efficient aerosol therapy system. This combination results in fast treatment times and a high quality aerosol that will deliver 80% of particles below 5 microns*, allowing for more drug to reach the target areas of the lungs.
Suitable for professional or home use, Porta-neb has been designed to easily manage prolonged use in a clinical environment as well as frequent use in the home.