GE Healthcare Et Control for the Aisys Carestation - Manual (Page 3)

Et Control: Simplified Automation
Et Control is an optional gas delivery mode for the fully
digital Aisys
® Carestation ® from GE Healthcare. With
Et Control the clinician sets the target EtO
2
and EtAA
values, the system constantly monitors the patient’s
EtO
2
and EtAA values and automatically adjusts the
gas delivery and total flow to achieve and maintain the
set target values. Intelligent inbuilt safeguards protect
against over-delivery and under-delivery of agent and
hypoxia – while providing the clinician with peace of
mind and total control at all times.
This innovative approach provides tangible benefits to
the anesthetist, including:
Sophisticated safety features
Et Control constantly measures end-tidal values and
automatically adjusts for the patient expired fractions,
so inputs can be tailored with extreme precision to
achieve the desired result. This level of precision
significantly reduces potential over-delivery of agents.
In addition to protecting against over-delivery of agents,
Et Control provides an intelligent hypoxic guard that
ensures alveolar oxygen is always above 25%, especially
important during circle anaesthesia. Traditional hypoxic
guards only regulate the oxygen in the fresh gas and
not in the circle breathing system. Now, GE Healthcare
has set a new safety benchmark for circle anesthesia
with EtO
2
Control.
Simplicity and ease of use
Et Control can be used by any clinician familiar with the
GE Healthcare anesthesia machine range. Simply set the
EtO
2
and EtAA target values and Aisys takes care of
ensuring those targets are met. For further peace of
mind when in Et Control, the user can also select a total
minimum fresh gas flow, to disallow total fresh gas flows
lower than the minimum setting. Et Control can give higher
total flows than the minimum flow setting (typically in
response to big changes to the EtO
2
and EtAA target
settings) but it will never go below the minimum total
flow setting.
Reduced workload
Automated EtO
2
and EtAA regulation and monitoring,
Et Control relieves the clinician of tasks that are not only
tedious and time-consuming but also potentially distracting,
to positively impact the overall patient care process.
Reducing costs
With increasing economic challenges, Et Control
provides a tool to deliver low-flow anesthesia in a safer
and controlled way, minimizing fresh gas and anesthetic
agent usage, with a positive impact on costs.
Data integration
Et Control captures and stores patient data seamlessly.
Used in conjunction with data supplied by other elements
of the Aisys Carestation, such as the digital ventilator,
vaporizer, gas mixing/delivery system, Et Control is an
integral part of a holistic patient management system.
The information flow among these core subsystems
enables critical information to be compiled and
transmitted, with built-in redundancies, to provide
data continuity.