The KING LTS-D is a new supraglottic airway that offers superior positive pressure ventilation with gastric access. The system allows the passage of an 18F suction catheter through a gastric access lumen that leads to the stomach and has an anatomically shaped distal tip and cuff.
Easy to insert, the KING LTS-D has centimeter depth markings and results in minimal airway trauma. It is also 100 percent latex-free and is provided sterile for single-patient use.

An advanced software option for mechanical ventilation, the PAV Proportional Assist Ventilation Plus delivers positive airway pressure that is directly related to a patient’s inspiratory effort during spontaneous breathing. Ventilator support increases as patient demand increases, optimizing the patient’s contribution to the total work of breathing.

The EC2060 is a single chamber, dual door warming cabinet with a capacity of 20.6 cubic feet. Touch keypad control can be set as high as 200 degrees Fahrenheit – up to 50 degrees warmer than most other warmers – keeping blankets warmer longer.
Featuring a pass-through option with window doors on both sides of the unit, the warmer can be built through a wall and is ideal wherever space is at a premium.
Warmers include glass doors for inventory at-a-glance, locking casters, rugged hinges and latches as well as heavy-duty stainless steel construction.

The Stimuplex HNS12 peripheral nerve stimulator offers clinicians a high degree of current delivery accuracy, especially at low current output in close proximity to the target nerve, enhancing peripheral nerve block success.
Its larger display also provides more information to the anesthesia provider regarding the condition of current being delivered to the patient and the quality of the motor twitches they elicit. This increases procedural efficiency and accuracy.

The Continuum MR Infusion System can now be used in magnetic resonance (MR) environments through 3.0 Tesla (T), enabling clinicians working in the latest 3.0T environments to infuse medications, sedatives and other drugs while benefiting from the system’s ease-of-use and dose enhancements.
Continuum provides an expanded set of measurements so clinicians can work with a larger selection of medications, sedatives and anesthetic agents.


Mechanical ventilation has a weighty presence in this issue — we offer our annual ventilator comparison chart as well as professional insights about advanced ventilator features in a physician-authored article beginning on page 28. Many thanks to this magazine’s Editorial Advisory Board member Dr. Girish Joshi at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and his colleagues for their important contribution.

Acuity Care Technology (ACT): Are there any new changes to the overall meeting this year?

Agfa Healthcare announced yesterday that it will install its speech recognition system, TalkStation, in more than 45 hospitals run by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), as part of VA’s strategy to decrease report turnaround time and improve quality of care.

The installation will include TalkStation 3.1, which has been validated to work with the VistA information system that is used at every VA Hospital. Each hospital is expected to be running TalkStation 3.1 by early 2007.

NASA Cardiovascular Laboratory researchers are measuring the loss of heart mass in Space Shuttle astronauts brought on by the most recent space flight, using 3-D ultrasound, a iE33 echocardiography system and QLAB Quantification software, developed by Philips Medical Systems, as part of an ongoing study on heart mass reduction during prolonged space flight.

Suros Surgical Systems Inc., a Hologic company, has gained city-wide adoption of its minimally invasive breast biopsy system with nearly all hospitals and breast centers in Indianapolis now using the one-minute biopsy system. The Suros ATEC Breast Biopsy and Excision System is used for breast biopsy guided by x-ray or mammography and is a leading device used for MRI-guided breast biopsy worldwide.
The ATEC system can be used with the three most common breast imaging modalities – stereotactic X-ray, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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