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Vital Signs Devices

The acquisition of Vital Signs by GE Healthcare marks a distinct expansion of our vision, capabilities and services.

Vital Signs enhances the entire GE Anesthesiology and Respiratory portfolio with an even wider range of high-quality products. Add that to the reach, support and commitment of GE’s global team - with over a hundred years of expertise and leadership in healthcare technology - and you’ve got a comprehensive offering of products and services for anesthesia and respiratory care. Combining our commitment and capabilities with those of Vital Signs clearly demonstrates we are not only committed to the healthcare community and clinicians worldwide today, but that we’ll continue to deliver innovative, advanced anesthesia and respiratory care solutions well into the future.

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Combining Parameter excellence to History of innovation in clinical ConsumableVital Signs aims are not just to provide you with connections between patient and device, we aim to offer solutions for use throughout different clinical areas and In addition to our product expertise, Vital Signs Devices can offer you single source simplicity.

This means fewer purchase orders to process, reduced time spent on vendors research and less inventory to manage. Through a partnership with you, Vital Signs Devices is committed to:

• Driving innovative improvements in patient care

• Providing clinically proven infection control solutions

• Delivering a significant reduction in the total cost of acquisition

• Improving Hospital operating efficiencies

• Freeing up Clinical Staff time for direct clinical activities

• Bringing innovative and bringing new products to market

Supplies & Accessories Solutions

To maximise the performance of your capital equipment, you need the best possible connection between equipment and patients. Vital Signs Devices allows you to make this connection. Engineered to the highest standards, our products are designed to work across a wide range of equipment platforms and procedures.

Vital Signs Monitoring • Blood Pressure Cuffs (Reusable and Disposable)

• Sp02 Sensors (Ohmeda OxyTip)

• ECG Cables & Leadwires

• Invasive Blood Pressure and Cardiac Output Supplies

• Temperature Probes

Anaesthetic Machine Related

• Flow Sensors

• O2 Cells

• Multiabsorber Sodalime

Specialised Care Area • Maternity/SCBU (Transducer Belts, ECG Paper, Fetal Scalp Electrodes)

• Cardiology (ECG Paper and Electrodes)

Imaginative Trust Wide Solutions • NIBP Cuff Standardisation

• Infection Control Solutions

• Medixair Air Purifier

• Patient Dedicated solutions

Anesthesia Clinical Consumables

There are four key areas in the Clinical Consumables; range, quality, ease of use and competitiveness. As a business we are relatively unique, our GE portfolio enables seamless connectivity between patient, equipment and clinician providing endless options with Vital Signs bespoke solutions.

Ventilation Solutions• Gas Sampling Lines

• Breathing Circuits / Custom Kits

• Spirometry (Respiratory gases and lung mechanics)

• Filtration and Humidification (Viral & HMEF)

Adequacy of AnesthesiaWhen you need to be sure, GE has some of the most innovative parameters on the market to provide you with all the information you need for adequate delivery of anesthesia

• Entropy (Depth of Consciousness)

• NMT (Neuro Muscular Transmission)

• SPI (Surgical Pleth index) for antinociception using GE Oximetry

Airway Management Solutions• Anesthetic Facemasks

• Laryngoscope Handles and Disposable Blades (Green Light)

• Laryngeal Masks

• Burman & Gudel oral airways

• Endo Tracheal Tubes

• Light Wands

Temperature Management Solutions As we are all aware today accidental anesthesia induced hypothermia creates a number of issues both clinically & operationally. That is why Vital signs has developed and continues to develop patient warming solutions for use in all clinical environments.

• enFlow Fluid Warming systems

• Thermadrapes Warming Blanket

• Full range of reusable and disposable Temperature probes

Critical Care and Emergency Medicine

At GE Vital Signs Devices we have launched a dedicated range of products for the Critical and Emergency Care Areas. Connectivity between the patient, monitoring and ventilation equipment is our core priority, supporting the clinician to rapidly deliver excellent quality of care and ensuring that through the use of disposable products the control of hospital infections is eliminated.

Respiratory Care• CPAP Kits, Individual face masks and PEEP valves

• Disposable pressure manometers

• Medication Nebulisers

• Misty Ox Humidifiers

Ventilation Solutions• Ventilation circuits, masks, Guedel airway

• Filtration & humidification

Monitoring Consumables• CO2 Gas sampling lines

• Spirometry tubes & Sensors

• Water Traps: D-Fend & Aqua Knott II

• Arterial Blood Gas sampling syringe kits

Resuscitation Devices • Manual Resuscitators: Disposable & Reusable

• Hyperinflation Systems: Adult & Paediatric

• C-CO2 indicator

• Broselow Paediatric Resuscitation System

Miscellaneous Consumables• Rapid Infusion Pressure Bags

• Kurtis Meconium Suction Device

About GE Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality and efficiency around the world.

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