Getinge adds personalized lung protection to Servo-u for safer and easier complex procedures
Getinge’s mechanical ventilator, Servo-u, now has an updated version 4.0, with added automatic lung recruitment and transpulmonary pressure monitoring functions which should make complex procedures easier for clinicians and safer for patients. Servo-u 4.0 was just introduced at the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels.
Mechanical ventilation is used in life support for millions of people each year, in everything from scheduled procedures to acute organ failure. It’s a vital technique, but it can also lead to injury. The best way to minimize this risk is to decide on the best protection and weaning strategy at the outset.
The automatic lung recruitment function comes in two versions, Auto RM (Recruitment Maneuver) and Auto SRM (Stepwise Recruitment Maneuver). The automatic maneuver to validate balloon positioning and filling has been developed to simplify workflow and improve positioning accuracy. A diagnostic view provides esophageal and transpulmonary pressure waveforms, with key parameters for safety assessment of controlled and spontaneous ventilation.
Auto SRM is an automatic workflow for Stepwise recruitment maneuvers based on the Open Lung approach. The tool guides the clinician smoothly through stepwise recruitment, decremental PEEP titration, re-recruitment and post-recruitment personalization of PEEP based on optimal dynamic compliance. Diagnostic features include assessment of recruitability and provides additional decision support when patients do not respond to the recruitment maneuver.
Input from more than 100 clinicians and researchers from across the globe assisted Getinge in developing creating the new features.
