Maintaining Your autonoME

It is highly recommended that you conduct regular maintenance on your autonoME and its accessories.  The beauty of your environmental control unit (ECU) / speech generating device (SGD) is that it is fairly simple to clean and maintain.  The microphone, microphone widescreen, sip and puff filter and straw should be cleaned and/or replaced as needed or at a minimum of every three months:

1. Remove the microphone sponge windscreen and clean the microphone tip with alcohol.
   Note: When used in a hospital or long term care setting, a new windscreen should be attached each time a new person uses the microphone.

2. Replace the sip and puff filter and straw.
   Note: When used in a hospital or long term care setting, the sip and puff filter and straw must be replaced with each new patient or per hospital infection control policy.

Note: When used in a hospital or long term care setting, the sip and puff filter and straw must be replaced with each new patient or per hospital infection control policy.

While you may wipe down your autonoME and accessories with a cloth moistened with any hospital grade disinfectant, please be sure to not submerge or spray the tablet computer, wall mounted box, PDI articulating arm and flexible bed mounted microphone or sip and puff arm with any liquid. The autonoME tablet comes equipped with a protective screen cover to shield the unit from harsh chemicals and scratches. If the protective screen cover is removed, only isopropyl alcohol should be used to clean the screen.

If you have any questions on how to maintain your autonoME, please do not hesitate to contact us.  Your safety and health is one of our top priorities!