Used Medical Equipment Discussion about reconditioned medical equipment

If you are looking for the latest in patient monitors at a rock bottom price, the Accuttorr Plus vital signs monitor from Datascope will exceed your expectations. These monitors are perfectly suited for a doctors office, dental office, outpatient department, prep testing, emergency room triage, or anywhere else patient monitoring is required. Absolute Medical recently acquired quite a few of these units from a hospital and is reselling them at a fraction of their new cost. These vital signs monitors are in excellent condition and are warrantied for 90 days.

The Accuttorr Plus comes in three models. The basic model measures NIBP (blood pressure) only and can be found here. The second and third versions add SPo2, or pulse oximetery, and are available with either Nellcor OxiMax finger sensors or Masimo SET sensors. Either way you cannot get a better deal on used medical equipment than this!

An anesthesia monitor is a vital piece of medical equipment found in operation rooms, outpatient clinics and anywhere a patient may be put under anesthesia. While under anesthesia both from a pre-operative assessment to post-operative information analysis, multiple parameters must monitor all physiological functions. Parameters on anesthesia monitors will cover the following parameters.

On the most basic machines you will find heart rate, measured via a 3 lead ECG and NIBP, or non invasive blood pressure, monitors blood pressure by use of a cuff and hose and is placed on the patient’s arm. However non-invasive blood measure is slightly less accurate than invasive measures. For more extensive procedures, a monitor that measures IBP, or invasive blood pressure is usually required as is temperature. IBP is measured invasively through an arterial line. Invasive arterial pressure measurement with intra vascular cannulae involves direct measurement of arterial pressure by placing a cannula needle in an artery. Most vital signs machines used in the OR setting will measure both.

Respiratory parameters are important parameters on an anesthesia monitor. Pulse oximetery or Spo2 is usually the starting point and capnography is used to measure ETCo2 or end tidal carbon dioxide. During anesthesia, there is interplay between two components: the patient and the anesthesia administration device (which is usually a breathing circuit and a ventilator or respirator). The critical connection between the two components is either an endotracheal tube or a mask, and CO2 is typically monitored at this junction. Capnography directly reflects the elimination of CO2 by the lungs to the anesthesia device. Indirectly, it reflects the production of CO₂ by tissues and the circulatory transport of CO₂ to the lungs. (see wikipedia: capnograph)

A final parameter that is measured by higher end anesthesia monitors is 5 agent gas monitor which quantifies any one of the following 5 anesthetic agents: Halothane, Isoflurane, Enflurane, Desflurane and Sevoflurane

The ECG test is a test that measures the electrical activity of the heart using 3, 5, or 12 leads connected to ECG machines. The leads are most often connected to the chest of the patient, and also the arms and legs. A resting ECG is completely painless to the patient except for the removal of the sticky pads that the leads are connected to. Still, the shorter the amount of time the leads are connected, the easier the removal of the leads will be.

Using ECG machines for testing patients is a good idea when they have certain symptoms including, but not limited to chest pain, difficulty breathing, fainting, or abnormal heartbeat. For an ECG test, a patient is often hooked up for a short amount of time (often as little as a minute). However, patients who need long-term monitoring may wear ECG leads for longer periods of time as part of a hospital stay.

While there are many companies that distribute ECG machines, one of the leading providers of used medical equipment such as ECG Machines, defibrillators, blood pressure monitors, and many more is Absolute Medical Equipment. You should not be surprised if you notice this name on your medical equipment the next time you go to the doctor’s office or clinic for an ECG.

There is no doubt that pulse oximetry is one of the greatest advances in patient monitoring, it is a simple non-invasive method of monitoring the percentage of hemoglobin (Hb) which is saturated with oxygen. A pulse oximeter consists of a probe attached to the patient’s finger which is linked to the computerized unit. It displays the percentage of Hb saturated with oxygen together with an audible signal for each pulse beat, a calculated heart rate and in some models, a graphical display of the blood flow past the probe. Audible alarms which can be programmed by the user are provided.  Pulse oximeters detect the presence of cyanosis before they are noticed clinically.

Its high degree of accuracy, coupled with ease of operation , pulse oximetry, or SpO2, has become the method of monitoring patients in the ICU, operating room, in out-patient facilities, triage centers or with any procedure where anesthesia is used. Even when transporting patients under noisy conditions, for example in aircraft, helicopters or ambulances, and the audible tone and alarms may not be heard, but a waveform can be seen together with a reliable reading of oxygen saturation, thus giving a global indication of a patient’s cardio-respiratory status.

Pulse Oximeters can be expensive. A good place to get new and used medical equipment at low costs is Absolutemed.com

Perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of medical equipment to own is the defibrillator. Defibrillation is the treatment for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia. In fact, many schools and universities are now installing this equipment in their buildings in order to save lives. Owning this piece of equipment is something that everyone should consider, especially if there is a history of heart disease in one’s family.
A defibrillator works by applying a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart muscle. The shock of current depolarizes the heart muscle, thus terminating the irregular heart beat. When the this is terminated, the body’s natural pacemaker reestablishes the correct beating rhythm.

So if you or your family is at risk of heart disease, it is very important to own and know how to operate a medical heart machine. It would be very unfortunate to lose someone you love, simply by not owning a medical heart machine to use during a cardiac arrhythmia. Since the prices have become affordable, many people are choosing to install defibrillators in their own homes to protect their families and loved ones. AbsoluteMed.com is a good place to look for new and used medical equipment.