Patient Monitors

In response to the earthquake disaster in China’s Sichuan province, Mindray Medical has announced that the company and its employees have together made donations of cash and medical equipment to the Red Cross Society of China.

Mindray Medical International, a manufacturer of medical devices, is globally headquartered in Shenzhen, China, with US headquarters on New Jersey. The medical equipment donated by the company for the disaster relief efforts included multi-parameter patient monitors and portable vital sign monitors. The combined value of the donations made by the company and its employees is over RMB3.2 million.

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GE, manufacturer of the popular line of Datex-Ohmeda medical equipment, and the GE Foundation have contributed medical equipment and cash donations to assist hospitals and communities in earthquake-impacted areas of China.

Within two days following the earthquake, GE made cash donations of $1.4 million to the Red Cross Society of China. They also donated medical equipment valued at $720,000. Since that time, over 7,000 GE employees in Greather China have contributed an additional $891,000 in cash and matching gifts to the Red Cross Society of China.

Equipment included in these donations included anesthesia machines, x-ray machines, vital signs monitors, and other emergency medical equipment. This week, an additional shipment of medical equipment, valued at $1.4 million, has been dispatched to hospitals and communities in Chengdu, Gansu and Sichuan provinces.

The total value of contributions to China Earthquake Relief from GE now exceeds $4.3 million. DRE carries refurbished medical equipment manufactured by GE Healthcare including the GE, Dinamap, Datex, and Ohmeda brands.

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DRE offers assistance to office-based surgery centers by providing affordable refurbished new medical equipment.

On January 14, 2008, a New York State law went into effect that will require office-based surgery (OBS) centers to be fully accredited by a nationally recognized agency determined by the New York State Commissioner of Health. To obtain and maintain accreditation, OBS centers will be required to possess medical and surgical equipment that increase patient safety.

DRE, Inc., a premier distributor of new and refurbished medical equipment, is able to supply OBS centers with equipment needed to obtain and maintain accreditation. According to Ben Gill, a Division Manager at DRE, the company’s refurbished equipment is attractive to OBS centers with fixed budgets.

“New York surgery centers can save a great deal of money when they buy refurbished equipment from DRE,” says Gill. “This could help them obtain and maintain accreditation for less than they would spend on new equipment.”

In addition to refurbished equipment, DRE sells a variety of affordable new equipment that could help OBS centers achieve accreditation. Factory-new products include the DRE Waveline Plus Vitals Signs Monitor, DRE Integra SP II Anesthesia System, and DRE Maxx Luxx II Operating Room Lights.

Once requirements of the law go into effect, affected OBS centers may be required to posses one of each of the following: An autoclave, operating room table or chair, proper surgical lighting, vital signs monitor with CO2, defibrillator or AED, sequential compression device, airway management kit, EKG machine, anesthesia machine, ventilator, standalone SpO2 monitor, crash cart, and blanket warmer.

OBS centers to which the law is applicable must be accredited by an agency approved by the Commissioner of Health by July 14, 2009. OBS centers that may need to become accredited include oral/maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, urological surgery, ambulatory surgery, and cosmetic surgery centers. OBS centers interested in purchasing equipment from DRE can view the company’s complete product listings at the company’s website.