Philips DreamStation 2 Heated Micro-Flex Tubing

The DreamStation 2 heated Micro-Flex tube keeps your air warm the whole way to your mask, so the moisture your humidifier adds is still there when you breathe it in. Unlike a plain hose, which lets that warmth bleed away into a cold room, this one heats along its full length.

It is also the narrowest tube Philips builds. There is noticeably less hose to shift around than the standard heated option, which matters most if you change position often through the night.

Key Features:

• Heated Full Length: A heating element runs the whole way, so warm humidified air arrives as warm humidified air.
• Rainout Protection: Keeps moisture suspended in the air rather than condensing into water inside your hose and mask.
• Adjustable Warmth: Set the temperature to suit your room, using a control that appears only when a heated tube is attached.
• Automatic Safety Cut-Out: Philips caps the air temperature on its own, so a high setting can never become an uncomfortable one.
• Same Six-Foot Reach: Narrower does not mean shorter, since this tube runs the same six feet as every other tube Philips builds for the platform.
• Automatic Detection: The machine picks the tube up through its gold pins, so there is no setting for you to hunt for.
• Six-Month Replacement: Philips asks you to discard and replace the tubing twice a year as a matter of course.

The Micro-Flex tube is ideal for patients who wake to water in the mask, whose bedroom runs cold, or who would rather have as little hose as possible on the bed beside them at night. It suits restless sleepers especially well.

Note: Philips also builds a plain performance tube at this same narrow width. That one is not heated and needs an adapter at the machine as well as the mask, so check the cuff reads HT12 before ordering.