New Spacelabs Medical Anesthesia Delivery System Shown at American Society of Anesthesiology Meeting.REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1999-- Spacelabs Medical (Nasdaq:SLMD SLMD Subscriber Line Module Digital ) announced today that their new Ultraview(TM) Anesthesia Delivery System was shown to clinicians attending the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and ) meeting this week in Dallas, TX. The Ultraview 2001 and 2002 systems are designed to deliver and regulate the flow of anesthetic agents Anesthetic agents Medication or drugs that can be injected with a needle or rubbed onto and area to make it numb before a surgical procedure. Anesthesia drugs may also be given by mouth, breathed in as a gas, or injected into a vein or muscle to make a patient and gases during surgery. In addition the new systems provide a level of perioperative perioperative /peri·op·er·a·tive/ (-op´er-ah-tiv) pertaining to the period extending from the time of hospitalization for surgery to the time of discharge. per·i·op·er·a·tive adj. information integration not previously available. Anesthesia providers can now have anesthesia delivery, cardiovascular, ventilation, respiratory and level-of-consciousness monitoring, as well as a perioperative clinical information system, all in one seamless system. Commenting on the new product, Geertjan Cromheecke, MD, manager of the general central operating room at the University Hospital of Utrecht, The Netherlands, stated, "Our team of anesthesiologists found the new anesthesia delivery system from Spacelabs to be an excellent product. It is very sophisticated and can be fully integrated with a clinical information system, yet its intuitive design made it very easy to learn and use Easy to learn refers to software that is well designed and capable of being used right away without having to wade through documentation. If you make the program work with little effort, it is easy to learn. , which is extremely important in a busy surgical theater. It is exciting to work with this new concept and we have great expectations about the studies we will perform with the rapid fresh gas flow Fresh gas flow refers to the mixture of medical gases and volatile anaesthetic agents which is produced by an anaesthetic machine. The flow rate and composition of the fresh gas flow is determined by the anaesthetist. and rapid volatile anesthetic delivery." The Ultraview Anesthesia Delivery System offers clinicians flexibility with upgradeable software, open-architecture and a design for both adult and pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. procedures. The Ultraview 2002 offers the advantages of the Spacelabs perioperative monitoring and information systems including Ultraview OR monitors with five-agent multi-gas analysis, continuous 12-lead ST segment monitoring and the world's first integrated Bispectral Index (BIS)(TM) monitoring, while the 2001 accommodates monitors from most other manufacturers. Spacelabs Medical is a leading provider of integrated healthcare information systems and medical instrumentation. For more information about this and other products from Spacelabs, please visit www.spacelabs.com. Ultraview is a trademark of Spacelabs Medical, Inc. Bispectral Index and BIS are trademarks of Aspect Medical Systems, Inc. (c) Spacelabs Medical, Inc. 1999 |
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