Hi All
Our NNU are looking to purchase some new vents.
Any recommendations or units to avoid.
Particularly interested in after sales aspects, e.g. clinical training, technical/service support and spares.
All comments welcome.

We are about to complete the Servo i tech course today and we are all suprised at the user functionality and the ease of maintenance. Loads of contract options but we will maintain our own with next day delivery on all spares. Have also attended user and Train the Trainer all excellent. 5K/12 months service takes minutes and only a built in pre use check (3-5mins) is required post service/ repair (no long PVT's). Training yesterday included physiology and history of ventilation as well as all the tech stuff.
Topper

Excuse my ignorance Mr Topper but what exactly is a Servo i ? We will soon be faced with this dilema here in Aberdeen but none of the options so far look like winners

The Servo i is a neo natal / adult / universal (depending on software options) ITU spec Ventilator. It is sold by Maquet.

Thanks for that answer man. I can't honestly say I have heard of it but you sound like you are quite positive about your experiences. Worthy of further investigation would you say ?

I found it on the Maquet website. Strange looking thing is it not ? Loving the blue and pink baby decoration though. Looks fairly comprehensive if somewhat complicated, how are your staff getting on with it ? One thing I noticed is that it doesn't seem to have any oscillation modes, I think this would make it a major no-no for us. At the moment we have SLE2000 which our staff like and an SLE5000 which the staff don't like and won't use and I don't think we are unique in this situation.......

We are in the process of trading in our SLE5000 , We bought this machine to do HF ventilation. The staff do not like the machine. We are trading it back to SLE for a SLE2000 HFO .

You can also try Draeger Medical .


A.M

We are in a similar poistion here.

Historically we had SLE 2000 HFO. The SLE 5000 didn't go down very were after one was purchased, unfortunately no specific reasons given by the users, and have now purchased the Avea from Viasys. It doesn't do HFO however.

The Servo-i used to be a Siemens vent before Draeger merged with them. The combined company would have had too much of a monopoly so the Siemens vent (and aneasthetic machine) had to be sold off.
The Draeger Babylog8000 has HFV as an option.
High frequecy ventilation is similar to high frequecy oscilation.
Have a look to see if it is suitable.
Robert

We have a Babylog 8000 with the HFV option, however the consultants always go for the SLE 2000 HFO or the Sensormedics 3100A whenever they require high frequency as the Babylog is often not capable of achieving the required pressures.