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We at HAMILTON MEDICAL are committed to a philosophy that we call Intelligent Ventilation. It stands for technologies and services that provide:

• superior performance in complex environments
• improved patient outcomes
• reduced costs

Superior performance in complex environments means that intelligent ventilators: 

• Free clinicians from routine tasks, so there’s more time for the important aspects of patient care
• Provide intuitive, simple user interfaces requiring minimal training and facilitating interpretion of complex data
• Promote continuous learning through device features and through simplified formal training

Improved patient outcomes means:

• reduced ventilator interactions required by ICU staff
• enforced lung protective ventilation - a “safety net” that minimizes the impact of operator error and risks inherent
  in mechanical ventilation
• reduce the time a patient spends on the ventilator

Costs in the ICU include labor, materials, equipment and indirect costs from other departments. Intelligent ventilators can influence costs in a number of ways:

• Reduce the time a patient spends on the ventilator
• Reduce time needed for training of ICU staff
• Reduce ventilator interactions required by ICU staff (reduces the time the clinician spends on the ventilator)

Perhaps most importantly, intelligent ventilators can help shorten the time a patient spends on the ventilator by providing innovative diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

Click here to read more about Intelligent Ventilation.

ASV is the concept of Intelligent Ventilation put into practice. ASV is an easy-to-use and extremely safe mode
of ventilation for intubated patients.

ASV is available on the HAMILTON G5, HAMILTON C2, GALILEO and RAPHAEL ventilators from HAMILTON MEDICAL. Adaptive Support Ventilation:

• Ventilates virtually all intubated patients - whether active or passive and regardless of their lung disease – based on a ventilation strategy tailored to their individual condition (Arnal JM et al. Int Care Med 2004;30:84)

• Is more responsive than conventional modes in adapting to the patient's breathing activity (Petter AH et al. Anesth Analg 2003;97:1743-50)

• Requires fewer user interactions and gives fewer alarms (Petter AH et al. Anesth Analg 2003;97:1743-50)

• Facilitates shorter ventilation times (Sulzer CF et al. Anesthesiology 2001;95:1339-45, Cassina T et al. J Cartiothorac Vasc Anesth 2003;17:571-75)

• Provides ventilation at least as safely and effectively as international ventilation experts using conventional modes (Iotti GA et al. Int Care Med 2005;31:192)

Click here to read more about ASV.

HAMILTON MEDICAL is a specialist in mechanical ventilation - born from a passion to improve the life of ventilated patients and the people who care for them and dedicated to Intelligent Ventilation.

HAMILTON MEDICAL is based in Switzerland and a member of the HAMILTON Group, a privately owned company that was founded in 1956 and now employs approximately 1,000 people.  In a time of mergers and acquisitions, HAMILTON has remained an independent, specialized company for 50 years and will continue to do so.