Medical Device Depot’s Blog

Welch Allyn offers an exciting new offer for their PC-Based Spirometry products!  Trade in your old spirometer for a Welch Allyn PC-Based Spirometer and you will save up to $450 on your purchase. In addition you will also receive free flow tubes.

Check out Medical Device Depot for more details on this special offer.

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new Titmus VSeries V2 and V4 Vision Screeners. We know that our customers are very excited about the new product and have been eagerly awaiting the product availability. This is a great time for us and we are excited and eager to meet the demand from the market for a new vision screening instrument. Please note details about the launch as listed below.

Old/New Vision Screener Family Comparison

• The new Titmus VSeries family of instruments will eventually replace the current TitmusiSeries and Model 2 family of vision screeners. Peripheral vision screening is now a standard feature on all models.
• Available Slide Sets & Accessories remain the same – Occupational, TNO Occupational, Professional, Aeromedical, Pediatric, School, Preschool and Driver Education.

Product discontinuance
Titmus 2 Models: 2a, 2a-P, 2s, 2s-P
TitmusiSeries Models: Titmusi250, Titmusi200

• We plan to discontinue production of all above listed instruments by end MAY 2010, 3 months after the launch of the new products. The Titmusi500 model was discontinued December 31, 2009.
• The Titmusi400 Model with the natural line-of-sight testing feature will NOT be discontinued.

Seeing clearly and accurately during exams and procedures takes more than good eyes—it takes precision light. The light from the Green Series Medical Exam Lights is closer to the color of natural daylight, making it easier for you to see subtle differences in tissue color. It’s also brighter, so you’ll be able to see every detail.

And now with the five-minute Green Series Medical Exam Lights Test Drive we’re giving you a quick way to experience the benefits these innovative new lights can bring to your practice. Finish the test drive and you’ll receive a bonus offer when you buy a Green Series Medical Exam Light. This cool deal (worth up to $540!) could be a FREE Macroview® Otoscope or a Mobile Stand for the GS Exam Light IV!

For more information on this special offer call 877-646-3300 or visit Medical Device Depot.

Summit Doppler Systems has announced their newest doppler, the L300AC, to their hand-held ABI systems.  The L300AC system features a keypad to enter pressure data and will calculate the ABI indices, making the ABI examination as convenient as possible.

Check out the L300AC Doppler  here.

Cardiac Science recalls 12,000 units

As many of you are probably aware, Cardiac Science has recently been subjected to several recalls. If you have are a customer of Medical Device Depot that currently own Cardiac Science units, pleasebe aware that that Physio-Control will offer a $250 trade-in on Cardiac Science Powerheart biphasic AEDs, Powerheart monophasic AEDs and CardioVive AEDs. Until FDA restrictions are lifted, this trade-in discount will only apply to LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillators. All customer orders will be subject to Cardiac Science’s standard exception process.

If you have any questions, please contact Medical Device Depot

Help Haiti Recover - Medical Device Depot donates Medical Equipment

This is a short note thanking the wonderful folks at Medical Device Depot for your generous donation of much needed medical equipment for the Haiti Response team. Your donation was recorded by our Indiana based, Hands Across the Sea Non-Profit Foundation  and will be picked up by Federal Express and delivered to Florida to meet up with military transport to Port Au Prince.

The Humanitarian Network in made up of Rotary Clubs and Districts, NGO’s and faith-based groups providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief around the world. If you’d like to register with the Network, please go to www.thehumanitariannetwork.org and click the link up at the top REGISTER. Registration is free and will open up our members to your services.

We will post a special “thanks” on our blogs (www.therotarianworld.blogspot.com and www.helphaitirecover.blogspot.com) as well as our three main websites:

When purchasing EKG machines and cardiopulmonary equipment there are two critical factors that must be considered. First, the company might not include all of the necessary accessories (such as EKG cables, power cords, etc.) in the shipped product. Second, product reliability can sometimes be an issue. Although the products have technically been approved by the FDA, they do not always work efficiently. In addition, technical support can sometimes be an issue because some companies who claim product service don’t receive all of the parts manufactured in China. As a result they do not have proper experience in working with these products.

There have been many great advances in hospital medical equipment over the last century, but most of us take them for granted.  The scientific community has graced us with some revolutionary pieces of hospital medical equipment that have saved many lives and generally helped people live longer and better.  And many of the new pieces of hospital medical equipment that have been introduced have opened the door for even more equipment inventions.  Consider the following simple pieces of equipment that are now taken for granted, which did not even exist before the 1960s.

Hospital Medical Equipment of the 1960s

The laser scalpel is still a pretty impressive piece of hospital medical equipment, but it is used in so many different procedures that it is no longer appreciated as the delicate and precise technological wonder it is.  Laser scalpels were not invented until 1964, thanks to testing beginning in 1960 that eventually led to the carbon dioxide laser.  Portable defibrillators were also introduced in 1960 in Belfast, Germany.  They are now about as common as first aid kits.  Ultrasound machines were developed around the same time, in 1962 to be exact, although they are not quite as easily portable.

The early 1960s were really quite a time for hospital medical equipment inventions.  Balloon catheters were invented by Thomas Fogarty in 1963. Fogarty patented the first balloon catheter that became the industry standard for continuous draining of the bladder, which is crucial during surgery.  And the first portable EKG, or electrocardiogram, was built in 1961 by Frank Sanborn’s company.  Although EKGs were already an accepted piece of hospital medical equipment, they had never been portable prior to that.

These equipments are now taken for granted in hospitals and other medical care settings, but life wouldn’t be the same without them.  It’s a good thing about living today.