Looking to buy a new anesthesia machine

[brioux]

Anyone have any experience with either the Mindray A5 or the Spacelabs BleaseSirius anesthesia machines? They're both relatively new entries into the upper Northeast market and they are very aggressive with their pricing. This area is predominately either GE or Draeger. Being unfamiliar with either of these products, I'm concerned about sacrificing quality for cost-effectiveness. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Isabelle49]

You might want to ask anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists about this. Nurses don't use anesthesia machines.

[cindyloowho]

You might want to ask anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists about this. Nurses don't use anesthesia machines.

Well, seeing as how this was posted in the CRNA forum, I'm assuming that was the OP's intent.

[bread angel]

I know Mindray had a large booth at the AANA meeting in Boston. I have no personal knowledge of them--have always liked Datex/Ohmeda/GE machines. They reliable and are easy to troubleshoot.

To the other poster, this is an appropriate topic for the CRNA forum.

BA, CRNA

[loveanesthesia]

I prefer the pneumatic machines, if you loose electricity you will deliver oxygen..big advantage in my mind. And you can deliver either sevo or forane if you have the variable bypass vaporizors. Some of the new machines have electronic flowmeters, and the engineers will tell you how much the accuracy increases. But I don't care really if my 1 L flow is actually 1.1 Ls. They also have all electronic vaporizors. Dont' know much about the machines you mention, but I'd stay away from the all electronic machines, they are computer driven and you know how computers behave, sometimes they just quit.

[BCRNA]

Spacelabs is a great choice, haven't used the other. Most new machines involve computers now. I was told the Spacelabs engineers used to work for ohmeda. Don't know if that is actually true.