Ohmeda Excel 210

WLMD ID: alej

Ohmeda introduced its line of Excel anesthesia machines in 1987.  These featured interchangeable parts and integrated controls of several functions that had previously been separate. The Excel machine’s electronic systems included anesthetic delivery, ventilation, carbon dioxide absorption, and monitoring of equipment performance, including audible alarms.  The Excel 210, seen here, has three flowmeters, for oxygen, nitrous oxide, and air, as well as two vaporizers for liquid volatile anesthetics.  The example seen here is equipped with halothane and isoflurane vaporizers.  A fail-safe system ensured that the delivered oxygen concentration did not fall below 25%. This model has three devices housed in the vertical pod on the left, which monitor gas volume, oxygen concentration, and airway pressure. The pod is angled toward the front of the machine, making the monitors easier for the anesthesiologist to see and to reach. Additional monitors could also be attached.

Catalog Record: Ohmeda Excel 210

Access Key: alej
Accession No.: 2012-02-24-1 A

Title: Ohmeda anesthesia system : excel 210.

Corporate Author: Ohmeda.

Title variation: Alt Title
Title: Ohmeda excel 210 anesthesia machine.

Publisher: Madison, WI : Ohmeda, [between 1987 and 2000].

Physical Descript: 1 anesthesia machine : metals, plastics, glass, rubber[?] ; 163.5 x 104 x 88.5 cm.

Subject: Anesthesia Machines.
Subject: Anesthesia Machines – computerized.
Subject: Anesthesia, Inhalation – instrumentation.
Subject: Monitoring, Intraoperative – instrumentation.

Note Type: General
Notes: Emmett , Clutton-Brock and Hutton., 1988, state that this model was
introduced in Britain in 1987. Product literature in the collection is dated
1987 and 1992. The earliest-dated reference to this model found in the
anesthesia literature is dated 1988. References continue through 2014, while
the bulk of references cluster from 1990 to 1995.

Note Type: With
Notes: For purposes of photography, married to an Ohmeda Isotec 4 vaporizer
(accession no. 2009-08-31-1) and an Ohmeda Fluotec 5 vaporizer (accession no.
2006-08-17-1 A).

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Emmett CP, Clutton-Brock TH, Hutton P. The Ohmeda Excel anaesthetic machine.
Anaesthesia. July, 1988;43(7):581-583. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.
1111/j.1365-2044.1988.tb06694.x/epdf. Accessed March 26, 2015.

Note Type: Physical Description
Notes: 1 cabinet-type anesthesia machine ; base cabinet is blue, with two shelves
and three drawers ; measured as photographed, with one GMS absorber, one
Series 7000 ventilator, (consists of two parts), one monitor bank mounted at
left containing one 5420 Volumeter, one 5100 oxygen monitor, one 5500 airway
pressure monitor; the back of the machine has one yoke and one wall system
connector each for oxygen, nitrous oxide and air; plate on back marked
“Ohmeda [new line] Anesthesia System [new line] Excel 210 ANSI [new line]
1002-9042-000 [new line] Stock Number [new line] Serial Number [new line]
AMAT00252 [new line] BOC Health Care.

Note Type: Reproduction
Notes: Photographed by Mr. Steve Donisch, January 14, 2014.

Note Type: Acquisition
Notes: Gift of Hannsjoerg Hasche-Kleunder, M.D.

Note Type: Historical
Notes: Ohmeda introduced its line of Excel anesthesia machines in 1987. These
featured interchangeable parts, and integrated controls of several functions
that had previously been separate. The Excel machines’ electronic systems
included anesthetic delivery, ventilation, carbon dioxide absorption, and
monitoring of equipment performance, including audible alarms. This example
has three flowmeters, for oxygen, nitrous oxide, and air, as well as two
vaporizers for liquid anesthetics. It is also equipped with halothane and
isoflurane vaporizers. A fail-safe system ensured that the oxygen
concentration did not fall below 25%. This model has three devices housed in
the vertical pod on the left, which monitor gas volume, oxygen concentration,
and airway pressure. The pod is angled toward the front of the machine,
making the monitors easier for the anesthesiologist to see and to reach.
Additional monitors could also be attached.

“The company has now made a policy decision to produce a limited range of
machines of constant design features with interchangeable parts and long
service intervals. The Excel machines which reflect this philosophy were
launched for sale in Britain on 12 March 1987…. There are two sizes of
machine, the 410 …. and the 210 a three gas, two vaporizeer model which is
physically smaller.” (Emmett, C. P., T. H. Clutton-Brock and P. Hutton, 1990
p. 581.)

Note Type: Exhibition
Notes: Selected for the WLM website, January, 2014.