�Draeger Medical, Inc. proclaimed that the Draeger Fabius MRI anesthesia machine has received FDA clearance. The newest member to the family of Draeger anesthesia machines is designed specifically to meet the requirements for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) environment.
The Fabius MRI is designed for use with 1.5T and 3.0T MRI systems. An structured Teslameter provides an acoustic alarm if the Fabius MRI is positioned within a field of operation strength greater than 40mTesla (400 Gauss).
The Fabius MRI employs the same user port as Draeger's Fabius GS, Fabius Tiro and Apollo machines, creating a uniform and consistent interface for the anaesthesia provider wherever anesthesia is required. The size of the MRI system oftentimes requires the anesthesia supplier to be outside the room or some space away from the gimmick during an examination. To accommodate this, additional optical alarm displays (LEDs) at the cover of the system provide visual indication for all alarm weather for the safety of the patient role in this specialized environment.
The Fabius MRI as well continues the same caliber of care to which clinical personnel department are habitual - from the OR application to the MRI environment. The standard configuration includes the advanced ventilation modes (volume and pressure controlled, pressure support and SIMV) that are specially needed for the care of untimely infants, newborns, and ICU patients and makes them available for use in this environs.
The high-velocity piston ventilator provides controlled compliance recompense, even with the yearner ventilation tubes often used in the MRI environment, providing for even the smallest babe.
Draeger as well offers a range of MRI-compatible accessories, all tested and certified for use with the Fabius MRI machine.
"Draeger is now offering the same quality of anaesthesia delivery in the MRI suite as it provides in the most demanding OR environs," said Robert Clark, Director of Anesthesia Care for the US. "We now offer an ICU-quality breathing machine in an MRI circumstance, as well as a broad political program of anesthesia machines that are conquer for any acuity situation. We are pleased to be able to offer our customers and their patients the highest quality of caution wherever they are receiving anesthesia."
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Draegerwerk AG & Co. KGaA is an international leader in the fields of medical and safety technology. Draeger products protect, support and save human life. Founded in 1889, in 2007 the Group achieved sales of 1,819.5 trillion Euro world-wide and an EBIT of 151.9 million Euro. Today, Draeger employs about 10,000 people in more than 70 subsidiaries worldwide and has representation in around 190 countries. The Draeger Medical subsidiary company offers products, services and integrated system of rules solutions which accompany the patient passim the charge process - Emergency Care, Perioperative Care, Critical Care or Perinatal Care and Home Mechanical Ventilation.
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