No More Philips CPAP Masks?

Anyone seeing the impact of this yet? Would think that it takes a while for it to move through the DME's but would be ridiculous if all of a sudden Respironics can't even make their masks anymore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K90I-eK56tM

So far, it's a rumor. It claims they are having a silicone supply problem. It does NOT say that
there will be "no more Philips CPAP masks".

Yes, sorry, didn't mean to make it sound so click-bait-y as I now see it comes across as

Was mostly just copying his title of the video. And yes, not that they are going away, but as we know, 3 month interruption from Philips could mean anything at this point...

I am just shocked that Philips would have a single supplier of silicone for their masks

The beginnings of the silicone shortage goes back as far as Early 2021 and it's global so even if Philips had second sourced it, there likely would be a shortage there as well. It's not only affecting Philips, but many other industries as well. Expect higher prices

https://www.sspinc.com/blog/2179/The-Si ... Explained/

Very interesting article. Found this quote from another related one on that website:

"During the current supply chain crisis, some silicone suppliers are substituting raw materials because they can’t get the ingredients that they usually buy, or those ingredients have become cost-prohibitive. These substitutions change the silicone’s recipe and could introduce a raw material that hasn’t been validated. Consequently, a medical device designer or manufacturer risks using a silicone with a certificate of conformance (COC) that is out-of-date. The COC may have been accurate at one time, but that’s no longer the case since it doesn’t reflect the current list of ingredients."