Automated Anesthesia Delivery Systems use a closed-loop to titrate drugs based on real-time patient data like brain activity. This ensures a stable anesthetic state, reduces drug usage, and frees the anesthesiologist to focus on critical decision-making and overall patient safety during surgery.
The Pulmonary Artery Catheter (PAC), famously known by the brand name Swan-Ganz, is one of the most iconic—and now controversial—tools in the history of critical care medicine.
A central venous catheter (CVC) is a vital medical device used in various clinical settings for medication administration, hemodynamic monitoring, blood sampling, and other therapeutic purposes.
An arterial line provides continuous, real-time blood pressure monitoring via a catheter in an artery connected to a pressure transducer. It’s the gold standard for hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill or unstable patients, allowing for beat-to-beat accuracy and easy blood sampling.
Non-Invasive Blood Pressure (NIBP) monitoring provides automated, intermittent measurements of a patient’s systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressure without the need to insert a catheter into an artery. It’s the automated equivalent of a clinician manually using a blood pressure cuff and stethoscope.
The pulse oximeter is arguably one of the most significant advancements in patient monitoring, so ubiquitous and reliable that it’s often called the “fifth vital sign.”
In every code blue, in every ambulance, and in every operating room around the world, there is one device that stands as the universal symbol of respiratory rescue: the “Ambu Bag.” It’s a simple, handheld tool that represents the difference between life and death, a direct mechanical extension of a clinician’s will to breathe for another.
In the “Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate” (CICO) scenario, the most feared emergency in anesthesia and critical care, in this dire moment it is the cricothyrotomy kit that transforms from a sterile package into a patient’s only hope.
While a 12-lead ECG is the gold standard for diagnosing a heart attack, the 5-lead ECG is the workhorse for continuous monitoring. It provides a dynamic, ongoing picture of the heart’s electrical activity, serving as an early warning system for a wide range of potentially life-threatening conditions.
A standard tracheostomy tube is a sophisticated device with several key components, each serving a specific function. Outer Cannula, Inner Cannula, Pilot Balloon & Inflation Line, Obturator and 15mm Connector.