Anesthesia-Related Businesses
Equipment & Supplies
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Agilent
- - HP spinoff Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group became a part of Philips Medical Systems on August 1, 2001.
- Arrow International
- - Multi-lumen catheters, implantable pumps, etc.
Augustine Medical - - BairHuggers® & other warming devices.
B. Braun Medical - - IV catheters, and a variety of related items. You will need a DocCheck login to access the prescription-only products.
Datex-Ohmeda - - monitors, anesthesia machines. Now a division of GE.
King Systems - - circuits, masks, etc
LMA North America - - all the various LMAs. Requires the Shockwave plug-in.
Mallinckrodt - - parent company of Puritan-Bennett ventilators, Nellcor pulse oximeters, and others.
Medtronic - - pacemakers, AICDs, stents
North American Dräger - - The (English-language) home page of this German maker of anesthesia machines.
Philips Medical Systems - - Monitoring, Info Management, Diagnosis & Resuscitation products, including echocardiography and a variety of telemetry units.
Rüsch - - Laryngoscope systems
SIMS - - Smiths Industries Medical Systems. The makers of Hotlines; & Level1®, also Portex.
Vital Signs - - circuits, masks, etc
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Information Management Systems
- iMDsoft
- - iMDsoft's MetaVision Suite of clinical information systems features fully-integrated tools for data collection, presentation, order management, and decision support across ICUs and perioperative environments.
Medications
- Abbott Anesthesia
- - Anzemet® (dolasetron), Ultane® (sevoflurane), Precedex® (dexmetomidine); IV products & custom kits
- Astra-Zeneca
- - Diprivan® (propofol), EMLA cream, Naropin® (ropivicaine)
- Baxter
- - Brevibloc® (esmolol), Suprane® (desflurane); infusion pumps & custom kits
- GlaxoSmithKline
- - Zofran® (odansetron), Acova® (argatroban) . Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham merged in December 2000. The old Glaxo Wellcome site still has some information on it. Unfortunately, the new GSK site is not particularly helpful - you can't search, and all of the meds are not listed.
- Merck
- - Aggrastat® (tirofiban), Cozaar® (losartan), Vioxx® (rofecoxib). Full prescribing information is available for all of their products; some have separate web pages.
- Organon USA
- - nondepolarizing muscle relaxants, including Zemuron®, Norcuron®
- Purdue-Pharma L.P.
- - MS Contin, Oxycontin®
Texts & Journals
Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins - publishers of Anesthesiology, and other journals.
W.B. Saunders Company - publishers of Miller's Anesthesia, Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia, & Stoelting's Anesthesia & Uncommon Diseases, among others. On-line purchasing. A division of Elsevier Science.