LAS VEGAS (Jan. 27, 2014)—Last year’s Medtrade brought unprecedented academic and consumer attention lavished on sleep medicine, and that trend is continuing in 2014. Sleep research originating in the United States and abroad continues to pour forth on almost a weekly basis.

The interest in sleep is reflected in the exhibitor list at Medtrade Spring, which includes the following sleep/sleep accessory companies:

Apex Medical Corp - Booth #850
Battery Power Solutions - Booth #743
Beijing Rongrui-Century Science & Tech - Booth #850
Blue Chip Medical Products Inc - Booth #623
Complete Medical Supplies - Booth #722
Contour Products Inc - Booth #1043
Core Products Intl - Booth #754
DeVilbiss Healthcare – Booth #927
Drive Medical - Booth #717
Fisher And Paykel Healthcare – Booth #819
GE Healthcare - Booth #326
Graham-Field – Booth #619
Health Call LLC - Booth #1029
Hudson Medical - Booth #929
Inventory Solutions Inc - Booth #357
Nova Medical Products - Booth #733
Philips Respironics Inc – Booth #706
RemZzzs – Booth #943
ResMed – Booth #211
Revsuppliance - Booth #1060
Roscoe Medical – Booth #411
Sunset Healthcare Solutions - Booth #760
Virtuox - Booth #860
Vitility - Booth #361

The list is filled with small, medium and large companies that focus on patients of all ages. In the case of Naturs Design, a Michigan-based company, founder Bob Rutan created his signature product literally in the middle of the night.

As his wife suffered through another miserable night with a CPAP mask, Rutan literally cut cloth from his own T-shirt to fashion a CPAP mask liner. “After that, I fell asleep and woke up seven hours later,” says Rutan, whose company now makes RemZzzs CPAP liners. “I thought I had killed my wife, because she had not moved. She had not slept so well in a long time.”

That was five years ago, and the inspiration has blossomed into a 15-employee company that will soon exhibit its retail cash item (a 100 percent cotton CPAP liner called RemZzzs) at Medtrade Spring (Booth #943), scheduled for March 10-12 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

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