Contents:

• Technology assessment providers
• Equipment and System manufacturers
• Regional equipment suppliers
• Lab supplies
• Miscellaneous links

Technology Assessment Providers

US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHCRQ) - technology assessments section

Anaesthetic Equipment and System Manufacturers

Agilent: see Philips Medical Systems
Aria Medical - anesthesia carts and anesthetist stools
Aspect Medical Systems: BIS monitoring systems
Ane-Dome: Drug security system for anesthesia carts
BioTek : specialist medical equipment testing devices (offline 19/2/97)
Blease: Anaesthetic machines, ventilators, vaporisers, related equipment - UK.
Capsuletech: Smart interfacing modules and software code to allow applications aquire data from a very wide range of medical devices.
Datex-Ohmeda: Part of GE now. Anaesthesia machines, monitors, gas analysers, AIMS solutions.
Datascope: monitoring systems, intra-aortic balloon pumps, vascular grafts
Dräger: Direct link to anesthesia products. Anaesthetic machines, AIMS, soda lime, monitors, ventilators, resuscitation equipment, gases, etc.
Dremed: new and refurbished anaesthesia equipment for hospitals, veterinarians, research labs etc.
Dupaco Inc : Stethoscopes, prone face protectors, miscellaneous items
CareFX Following on from EmTek.: Clinical Information Systems
GE Healthcare: includes Marquette & Datex-Ohmeda - anaesthesia systems, monitors and more - unstable website so google for links.
HP Medical: see Philips Medical Systems
Johnson & Johnson : Infection control, vascular access, wound management, Sterrad
Nellcor: pulse oximetry and other respiratory products including those from Mallincrodt, Argyle, Bronch-cath, etc.
Marquette Electronics : now sold by GE as the Solar range.
Maquet: Operating tables, Servo ventilators
Movit: wheel guards for anaesthesia machines, keeps cables from interfering with moving machines - offline 4 June 2005
Obamed: Compact Office Based Anesthesia machine
OR Supply Co: Supplies for anesthesia, intubation and other specialty areas.
Para Products: Makers of the Positube EDD an oesophageal detection device
Picis : Anesthesia and Critical Care information systems.
Penlon : Anaesthesia machines, vapourisers, laryngoscopes, suction pipelines etc.
Philips Medical Systems: products include patient monitors (portable, stand-alone, networked, central, ICU, holter), defibrillators, electronic & acoustic stethoscopes as well as CT scanners etc.
Respiratory Products News is a great site with info about respiratory products
Rüsch: airways, tubes, facemasks, etc.
Siemens: monitors now incorporated in the Dräger product line; Servo ventilators now Maquet
Sims Portex: endotracheal tubes, filters, connectors, masks, cannulas and catheters, epidural and spinal kits, etc. etc.
Sims Graseby: Syringe Pumps, apnoea monitors
Sharn Veterinary veterinary specific monitoring equipment, including the Cardell® veterinary medicine blood pressure monitor.
Spacelabs Medical : Cardiac monitors, gas analysers, anaesthesia machines, information systems; now part of GE.
Ulco Engineering: Anaesthetic machines, ventilators, Arkis recordkeeper
Unomedical: Medical disposables including endotracheal tubes etc.
Vitaid : The Glidesope vide-assisted laryngoscope / intubating device & others.
Wu Scope Systems : Combination intubating device.

Medizin & MedTech - Verlag provide a german language european searchable equipment supplier list.

Mannikin-based anesthesia simulator manufacturers are in the education section.

Anaesthesia Equipment Suppliers: USA

Eldor Combined Spinal-Epidural Needle
Movit - John Navar's system for clearing hoses from around trolley wheels. e-mail: jjnavar@msn.com
Veterinary Anaesthesia Systems - New used and custom designed veterinary anaesthesia equipment
Parker Medical : Endotracheal tubes and intubation equipment
HullAnesthesia - California based equipment supplier with online ordering.

Australia/NZ

ESCO Industries : Operating Room Pendents, supply panels etc.
Mayo Healthcare : Suppliers of a wider range of medical equipment, facemasks, breathing circuits, ventilators etc. etc.
Ulco Engineering: Anaesthetic machines, ventilators, Arkis recordkeeper.

Lab Supplies: USA

Fisher Scientific - Lab supplies

Miscellaneous

For Information Systems see our chapter on PDA's, informatics etc.

Markus Weiss has written a journal article about video-assisted intubation equipment, including paediatric devices.