portable / office anesthesia machine

[stonemd]

anyone with advice or experience with a portable anesthesia machine for use in offices?

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[propadope]

Do you want nitrous/air/ oxygen or just air/oxygen? Vapour? Are you planning on physically transporting it in and out of facilities?

J

 

[stonemd]

just air/oxygen is fine
Vapour - sevo vaporizer
physically transporting in/out of facilities? yes so it should be small/light

 

[propadope]

Check out the OBA-1 by Cardinal or the Magellan by Oceanic. Third option is the DRE VSO2 (has nitrous capability). The machines without nitrous are usually lighter due to the absence of hypoxic failsafes. Do you need a vent? Only the Magellan has an integrated vent option. Hope this helps

J

 

[imfrankie]

anyone with advice or experience with a portable anesthesia machine for use in offices?

Any reason you want vapor instead of TIVA?

 

[stonemd]

sorry to be slow to answer.
needs to do some peds dental GA, so anticipate some mask inductions

 

[propadope]

sorry to be slow to answer.
needs to do some peds dental GA, so anticipate some mask inductions

No problem. All I do is dental. I have the DRE because I like nitrous. But I think the other two options are better if you are going air/oxygen. One option that is nice on the DRE is it has low flow flowmeters but at the expense of size and weight

 

[ProwlerturnGas]

DRE VSO2 is what we use for in-office peds dental. Easily portable and very robust machine. No office that I know of runs an air line, all O2 and Nitrous. DRE does not have a ventilator which can come in handy occasionally. Sevo vaporizer for mask inductions then switch to TIVA. I have been very pleased with the DRE

 

[propadope]

DRE VSO2 is what we use for in-office peds dental. Easily portable and very robust machine. No office that I know of runs an air line, all O2 and Nitrous. DRE does not have a ventilator which can come in handy occasionally. Sevo vaporizer for mask inductions then switch to TIVA. I have been very pleased with the DRE

Good point. Dentists will not have an air line but it may be possible to have air tanks brought in depending on the office setup and state regulations. I agree that nitrous is definitely more convenient and readily available

 

[Neogenesis]

DRE VSO2 is what we use for in-office peds dental. Easily portable and very robust machine. No office that I know of runs an air line, all O2 and Nitrous. DRE does not have a ventilator which can come in handy occasionally. Sevo vaporizer for mask inductions then switch to TIVA. I have been very pleased with the DRE

Taken out of context, that last line made me giggle