I think I know what it is, but I want to be sure. It’s the part encircled in red in this image.
Your help is appreciated!
Looks like a vital signs monitor to me.
Ok, good, thanks. I was thinking it was a portable ECG. If it serves all the functions of one, and is portable, then it will serve my purposes. Anyone care to confirm those two things?
Portable vital signs and/or EKG monitor, sitting atop an anesthesia workstation.
Is it the machine that goes PING?
Close. It’s the machine that goes BING!
Of course the link makes noise - it goes BING!
It’s a flux capacitor.
What purposes would those be? Roland Orzabal’s E-Z home surgery? Basement torture chamber?
If you have a heart arythmia or similar, then a personal EKG machine would be handy.
No it’s the machine that goes pocketa-pocketa-queep!!
ok–got it from anesthesiologist so. it’s a combination ekg/pulse oximetry/capnography/anesthesia agents monitor/arterial blood pressure monitoring/central venous pressure monitoring/and possibly other things if they’re programmed into it. there–direct from my horse’s mouth.
Would these signs be important, nay, vital?
Something one might want to monitor?
lol–so true–“vital signs monitor”! but ya know, in the medical parlance, vital signs generally refers to pulse, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. this instrument can be programmed to monitor many other signs necessary to monitor during a general anesthetic.
vital sign machines are a dime a dozen
ones that include 3 lead ekg less so
and those with CO2, art line and CVP capabilities are fairly rare
The Vital Signs Monitor I linked to in my first post can display:
3 or 5-lead ECG
Heart/Pulse rate
Smartcuf TM non-invasive blood pressure
Nellcor® Pulse oximetry
Impedance respiration
Invasive blood pressure (up to 2 channels)
Capnography (mainstream/sidestream)
Temperature
Apnea
No, but thanks for the ideas!
Actually, I just need a picture of a portable ECG in a hospital-esque setting for a project I’m working on. Since my knowledge of medical machinery comes largely from watching House, I figured I ought to appeal to a more authoritative source, and since the toaster didn’t answer, I came here. Thanks everyone!