Why the Clear-Flo™ Nasal Airway is Good for Your Practice

Some surgeons “pack” and some do not. There is no right or wrong, medically. Surgeon preference.

The patient preferences offer a different perspective, however. Patients don’t care whether chromic or Vicryl are used, or whether a “splint” is secured, or whether or not the nose is packed.

Patients are thinking about only two issues

Pain control is easy; we prescribe analgesics, and perhaps tranquilizers. Problem solved.

The breathing issue is less consistently addressed. Surgeons who choose not to pack are responding to the “bad press” the packing has eternally endured. Not packing is often, but not always, a concession to its unpopularity among the lay public and prospective patients.

To deliver the optimal patient experience and thus engender satisfaction and stimulate referrals, expressing concern for the airway issue by installing a breathing conduit at the conclusion of the surgery has become a big plus for more and more practices.

The “bad press”, fair or unfair, concerning blocked breathing after nasal/sinus surgery is still out there. Some is based on obsolete packing techniques, but such bad news doesn’t die out quickly. And it makes patients reluctant to have safe and successful surgeries.

The Reltok Clear-Flo™ Nasal Airway makes it easier for patients to accept a recommendation for surgery. Patient commentaries, testimonials and reviews — right on this website — endorsing the use of the airway are hard to dismiss.

Based on patients satisfaction surveys, “To pack, or not to pack” is less of a question than “To breathe or not to breathe”. We surgeons think “technique”, while the patient thinks “comfort”.

Insertion of the Reltok Clear-Flo™ Nasal Airway facilitates a more pleasant patient experience, diminishes immediate post-operative office visits, lessens the burden on office staff and most importantly drives development of very positive attitudes about the surgeon and his practice.

In an increasingly competitive practice environment, the Reltok Clear-Flo™ Nasal Airway can become your practice’s “silent salesperson”. When presented to the patient at consultation, or better yet, in introductory materials provided prior to consultation, there can be created in the mind of the patient an important sense that:

Another benefit has no opponents. Additional revenue.

Surgeons are receiving additional payments, by insurers, including Medicare, for the additional service of inserting the Reltok Clear-Flo™ Nasal Airway.

Everything you need to know about that “value added” benefit is available to you and your administrator by clicking here.