Anesthesia Related Businesses

Equipment & Supplies

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

 

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.

Please note that this is not a comprehensive listing and does not imply endorsement by the ASA.