Used Medical Equipment Discussion about reconditioned medical equipment

What’s in a name? Well, Critikon, or as it popped up Criticon, seemed strange so I did a little research: Acquired by GE Medical Systems Information Technologies in 2000. The Tampa, Fla., provider of sub-acute patient monitoring and noninvasive blood pressure technologies introduced the DINAMAP® Compact Monitors to provide healthcare professionals with top performance patient monitors in, NIBP, predictive temperature and pulse oximetry.

MAP, or Mean Arterial Pressure, is blood pumped out of the left ventricle into the arteries, pressure is generated. The mean arterial pressure (MAP) is determined by the cardiac output (CO), systemic vascular resistance (SVR), and central venous pressure (CVP) according to the following relationship, which is based upon the relationship between flow, pressure and resistance: MAP = (CO × SVR) + CVP

These patient vital signs monitors come with the following:
• non-invasive blood pressure cuff SPO2 probe
• Built in printer recorder
• Unique patented motion artifact rejection system ensures accuracy even when the patient moves
• STAT feature, systolic search and intelligent inflation capability
• Dual hose technology enhances monitor sensitivity in extreme hypotensive situations.
• Unparalleled accuracy for monitoring hypertensive patients
• Remarkable sensitivity for monitoring hypertensive patients
• Suitable for adult, pediatric and neonatal
• Allows you to take all connected vitals with the press of one button STAT mode for rapid BP readings in emergency situations.

For Cardiology, Nephrology, Hypertension or Hypotension, Renal function and Transplantation contact Absolute Medical Equipment for the best pricing and top quality on these new and used medical equipment in patient vital signs monitors.

Writing about the Corometrics 174 is a lot of fun for me. In the past three years two couples I know have had multiple births: One had fraternal twins, they had a history in both families. The other had triplets-like many women having babies, after age 30, she took fertility drugs. (She is a neurologist and told me “this was the hardest thing I have ever done.”)
All the kids are healthy!

It seems so much more important when you see how little these babies were and how proud Absolute Medical Equipment is of our line of Maternal-fetal monitors. Sleek, compact and lightweight, The Corometrics 174 fetal monitor, for antepartum of fetal heart and uterine activity, is made with the quality you expect from Corometrics (No owned by GE Healthcare).

Benefits include:
• Wide beam 9-crystal Nautilus watertight ultrasound transducers provide the fetal heart rate and acquire the signal easily and quickly.
• Independent volume controls facilitate easy transducer placement.
• Nautilus™ watertight TOCO transducer permits quick, external acquisition of uterine activity.
• Flat-surface design won’t leave a mark on your patient.
• Heart rate offset mode makes it easy to visually distinguish between the heart
rates of twins.
• Heartbeat coincidence recognition provides visual and audible indications indicating that you may be monitoring a duplicate signal.
• Fetal heart rate alarm provides both audible and visual alerts if the heart rate is outside of the user-defined high/low range.

Be your medical needs consist of an Obstetrics/Gynecology private office practices or hospital based emergency room, ICU, CCU setting; Each Corometrics 174 Fetal Monitor, from absolutemed.com, comes complete with:
1. One Ultrasound transducer
2. One TOCO transducer
3. 90-DAY WARRANTY

We provide hospitals, private practice doctors, technicians, and clinics with high quality new and used medical equipment like fetal monitors at very reasonable cost. Our equipment is tested and guaranteed to perform at manufactures specs for a fraction of the cost of a new unit. At Absolute Medical Equipment, we stand behind our product so you can rest assured you have made a sound purchase decision.

The General Electric Logiq Book gives your medical practice, clinical setting or hospital operation high performance ultrasound… anywhere. In addition, the GE LOQIGBook is a truly portable ultrasound machine and offers advanced performance in a compact platform. LOGIQ Book Advantages:

• Automatic image optimization – single button control
• Color, spectral Doppler and power Doppler modes
• High resolution 10.4-inch display
• Raw data image storage and processing
• Image archive with over 4,000 images and cine loops
• Lightweight, 10-pound compact design is ultra portable
• Battery operation capability for remote use
• Extensive high end calculation packages
• DICOM and wireless DICOM options
• Easy 3D option We can’t discuss the GE LogicBook without a few words on the probes Absolute Medical Equipment has available. Ultrasound Probes included:
• 8L-RS (5-10MHz Broadband) Vascular, small parts, breast & musculoskeletal imaging Transducer probe
• 3S-RS (2-3.6MHz Broadband) phased Array Cardiac Transducer Probe

Other probes available in place of the ones above as a no cost swap or in addition to them at additional charge:

• Convex
• Abdominal
• Microconvex

A few words Doppler imaging:
This relationship is called Doppler Effect (or Doppler Shift) after Austrian Physicist Christian Johann Doppler (1803-1853).

Spectral Doppler imaging: practical guidelines:
(1) Set power to within fetal study limits
(2) Position the pulsed wave Doppler cursor on the vessel to be investigated
(3) Adjust gain so that the sonogram is clearly visible and free of noise
(4) Use probe positioning/beam steering to obtain a satisfactory beam/vessel angle. Angles close to 90° will give ambiguous/unclear values. The beam/vessel angle should be 60° or less if velocity measurements are to be made
(5) Adjust the pulse repetition frequency/scale and baseline to suit flow conditions. The sonogram should be clear and not aliased
(6) Set the sample volume to correct size. Correct the angle to obtain accurate velocities. Use the B-mode and color flow image of the vessel to make the angle correction.
(Citation: Doppler Ultrasound: Principles and practice, by Colin Dean Published in Doppler in Obstetrics © 2002)

You can find General Electric Logiq as well as many other portable ultrasound machines and used medical equipment at Absolute Medical Equipment.

The Acuson Sequoia 256 is a leader in the Cardiac Ultrasound field. Whether in the hospital, or private practices of cardiology, endocrinology, internal medicine, obstetrics & gynecology and urology this ultrasound machine is a true clinical “work-horse.”
Among the stand out features of the Sequoia 256 is the tremendous quality of the color monitor and its unparalleled graphics. Clarity for your staff and medical consultants as well as reassuring for any medical specialist.

Important features:

• Cardiac Calculations
• Tissue Harmonics
• Color Doppler
• Color Angio
• B Color
• Pulsed Wave Doppler
• Color Wave Doppler
• M Mode
• Echo
• TEE compatible (TEE probe not included)
• ECG/M-mode w/ 3 lead EKG cable

Seldom do we get to point out the medical community’s reliance on our Acuson Sequoia 256. Here are just a few important clinical studies, I came across when researching this article:
1. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2. Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 32 – 36 Published Online: 8 Dec 2004) Impact of congenital heart disease on cerebrovascular blood flow dynamics in the fetus. Here Cerebrovascular resistance in fetuses with hypo plastic left heart syndrome was discussed.
2. The Acuson Sequoia 256 was also featured in the Coronary artery flow reserve in diabetics with erectile dysfunction using sildenafil:
(http://www.cardiab.com/content/2/1/8) Conducted by the German Clinic for Diagnostics’ Departments of Cardiology, Urology and Endocrinology in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Several of these leading echocardiography/ultrasound machines are available at Absolute Medical Equipment.; they offer new and used medical equipment in excellent working order for your physician clinic, private medical practice, and hospital center.

One of our first sales of these recently acquired self-contained patient monitors was to a rural medical clinic, south-of-the-border. Our physician sales contact (yes, I used physician and sales contact in the same sentence) told Absolutemed.com that his people needed a compact, self-contained patient monitor that provides many of the advanced features previously found only in high-end patient modular systems.
He told us that the Eagle 4000 was the perfect balance between capability and cost.

The GE Marquette Eagle 4000 features include the following:
•NIBP, state-of-the art Marquette reliability!
•ECG multi-lead
•EKG monitoring
•SPO2 Pulse Oximetry monitoring
•Temp 2 channel Temperature monitoring
•HUGE 10.4″ EL Monochrome LCD display
•NEW ECG electrocardiography patient Cable with leads
•NEW SaO2 finger sensor and cable
•Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitors cuff with hose.
•Power cable
•Internal battery
•PRINTER is available for an additional $500

Important Benefits
Shows up to 6 WAVEFORMS
Compact and Lightweight! Only 16 Lbs
Network able for central station access
New accessories included sell normally for $350 !
90 DAY WARRANTY from Absolute Medical

Our feedback includes descriptions of a unit that can travel between villages and take the bumps and bruises of life in the backwoods. Now, your medical facility will probably never encounter these factors but the anesthesiologist cardiologist, internist, vascular specialist, veterinarian and hospital practice can feel safe that they are getting a truly dependable patient monitor.
Oh, our contact did graduate, but never did come back to the U.S. to practice medicine. He saw a need and uses his medical knowledge and business skills to help people in his own way. He seems pretty happy!

There are several DEMO units in LIKE-NEW CONDITION! Very low priced and available now here at Absolute Medical, Inc where you can find lots of new and used medical equipment.

The Nellcor N 595 Pulse Oximeter is one of the leaders in in the patient monitor field. If you need a patient monitor for neonates, children or adults in your medical office or hospital based practice you can count on the accuracy, and exceptional performance of the Nellcor N 595.
The Anesthesiologist, Internist, Cardiologist, Surgeon or Pulmonary function specialist will find the Measurement Range of SaO2 (1 to 100%), pulse rate (20-250 bpm), and Perfusion range (0.03% to 20%). Also, for patients with sub clinical congestive heart failure or obstructive sleep apnea there is an interesting from American College of Chest Physicians you may wish to take a look at: (Chest, doi:10.1378/chest.06-2562 doi:10.1378/chest.06-2562 Chest. 2007; 132:81-87)
On a personal note, I went to visit a friend at the local hospital center and was interested to see this pulse oximeter in his room. I spoke with the floor nurse who said that one thing that stood out for her was “the ability …(of the Nellcor 595)…to be connected to nurse call systems. I image that the hospital RN, who is on the front lines, thinks about monitor alarms.
The hospital purchasing department can feel contentment that the informed me that Reusable Adult Finger Sensor Probes came highly recommended as well. Saving you money. Absolute Medical Equipment has a number of these Nellcor 595 Pulse Oximeters in stock. Slightly used but in excellent condition. As always, new and used medical equipment is available for your medical practice, physician clinic or hospital setting at a very low price.

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