Flow-i Anesthesia Machine
Flow-i Anesthesia Machine
Advanced anesthesia for all procedures, from neonates to the morbidly obese.
The Flow-i combines superior ventilation performance with smart decision support tools in an easy to use workstation. The Flow-i lets you treat even your most challenging patients with safe, lung-protective and cost-efficient ventilation and anesthetic care.
Overview
When developing the Flow-i, we have built on our insight and expertise as a world-leading manufacturer of Servo ventilators, enabling us to develop unique, innovative technology. Technology that combines high power with high sensitivity and accuracy to gently optimize gas exchange in the lungs and minimize the risk of complications. Flow-i is powerful and reliable, and the same time easy to use.
Next-generation technology at the core
Ventilation performance is not only about modes, but most importantly to ensure the power and precision to ventilate all patient categories. At the heart of the Flow-i you'll find the innovative Flow Core Technology providing superior ventilation performance – power when you need it, yet gentle on the lungs. [1]
- Proven ICU Servo gas modules
- delivering up to 200 l/min inspiratory flow, and adjusting pressure and flow several times within every breath, depending on patient needs.
- Unique and rigid Volume Reflector rebreathing system
- facilitating up to 98% rebreathing. The Volume Reflector is never empty in order to provide uninterrupted ventilation, and will effectively compensate leakages. It is oxygen-driven thus minimizing the risk for hypoxic mixtures.
- Electronic injection vaporizers
- for more precise delivery of agents.
Easy to use and smart by design
The intuitive 15” rotatable and tiltable touchscreen is straightforward to understand and use, and lets you control everything from one place saving time. The Flow-i is easy to move, position and configure and it can be placed anywhere around the OR table, ensuring the screen is in reach. With flexible mounting options for both monitors and accessories, you can truly personalize your workstation.
“Flow-i is so easy to use, training new staff and external consultants is made much easier…”
Clinician during testing
Features
Better patient outcome and workflow
Safe and efficient low-flow anesthesia with AGC
Automatic Gas Control (AGC) is designed to reach the target end-tidal anesthetic agent you set, at the speed desired. AGC greatly reduces agent usage and the need for manual adjustments providing cost-efficient low-flow anesthesia.
Battle atelectasis with stepwise lung recruitment
Stepwise and automated lung recruitment with Flow-i aims to gently open the alveoli. Breath-by-breath compliance, trending the effect of the maneuver can be monitored in real time.
Reduce the risk of hypoxia with O2Guard
Unlike hypoxic guards in conventional anesthesia machines, O₂Guard actively intervenes if the inspired oxygen concentration drops below 21%, reducing the risk of hypoxic mixtures.
MAC Brain
Visualizing agent concentration in target organ
Due to pharmacokinetics there is a time delay in agent concentrations between the lungs and the target organ, the brain. The unique MAC Brain tool visualizes the difference to support better dosing and planning of agent delivery.
Models
Flow-i C20
The Flow-i C20 provides you with the extra storage you need. Choose between two or three drawers.
Flow-i C30
Flow-i C30 is unique in its height adjustability. Combined with a vast mounting and positioning flexibility you can tailor the machine to suite your working position.
Flow-i C40
Flow-i C40 is ceiling mounted, offering a two-part circulating radius, which results in a wide spatial range for the unit. The C40 facilitates cleaning and thus contributes to infection control.
Securing your investment
Improve uptime in the OR
- connect your anesthesia machines
Our digital service Getinge Online, connects people, products and ideas, which enables both service teams and clinicians to improve efficiency. Getinge Online gives instant access to equipment data that helps you, your team and the hospital to gain insights and maximize uptime. The data also helps you lower anesthetic agent usage and reduce the environmental footprint.
Ensure maximum uptime
Optimizing your equipment's services is often an untapped opportunity to maximize productivity and reduce costs. Our Getinge Care service offering will ensure that your equipment always perform at peak levels allowing you to focus on what’s important - saving lives.
High quality consumables
We offer an extensive range of readily available consumables designed for highest possible patient safety and ease of use – all to help secure your everyday operations.
Patient data at your fingertips
MSync helps you to connect your Flow-i fleet to your patient monitor, HIS or patient data management system (PDMS). Clinical and patient data is transferred in real time to support clinical decision-making.
Training
Start training on how to use the Flow-i with our e-learning courses.
Downloads
Brochures
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Flow-i anesthesia machine
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Stepwise lung recruitment with Flow-i
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Step-by-step lung recruitment guide
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Automatic Gas Control (AGC) with Flow-i
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Flow anesthesia family brochure
Three systems. One vision. Start using a Flow machine and you’ll quickly notice the attention to detail and thoughtful touches that result from our close collaboration with clinicians. Experience the Flow
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Getinge Care
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Getinge consumables anesthesia and ventilation
Getinge offers a full range of high quality consumables for the Servo ventilator platform and Flow-i anesthesia machines.
Case studies
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"Our new Flow-i´s with AGC save us €106,000 yearly."
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Greatly reduced anaesthetic agent usage with Flow-i AGC
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Flow-i helped save 393 gram neonate
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Hypoxic guards – how safe are they?
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User impression: “AGC buys us time to care for the patient”
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User impression: "There is no other anaesthesia ventilator"
Related products
Flow-e
Flow-e is the extended, flexible workstation for dynamic anesthesia delivery. Featuring Getinge’s proprietary innovations, the machine ensures efficient ventilation performance and personalized care for a wide range of patients. With a larger worktop, more storage space, and generous mounting possibilities for auxiliary equipment, Flow-e can be customized to match your needs and preferences.
Flow-c
Flow-c is the compact, easy-to-use dynamic workstation, enabling safe and cost-efficient treatment. The compact design is an advantage in a crowded OR with a busy schedule. Despite its small size, it has Flow Family advantages such as ventilation performance to ICU standards, precision agent dosing, hypoxia prevention technologies, an intuitive user interface, and several mounting possibilities.
Getinge Online for acute care products
Our digital service enables hospitals to improve efficiency by using equipment data to gain insights and maximize uptime.
All references
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Internal test reports comparing Flow-i with vendor machines; EVU-125310, EVU-125312, EVU-125313