Narkomed GS

Catalog Record: Narkomed GS

Access Key: ammf

Accession No.: 2014-02-15-1 I

Title: Narkomed GS / Draeger Medical, Inc.

Corporate Author: Draeger Medical, Inc.
Corporate Author: North American Dräger.

Publisher: Telford, PA : Draeger Medical, Inc., [between 1997 and 2006].

Physical Descript: 1 anesthesia machine : metals, plastics, glass ; 139.5 x 111.5 x 90 cm.

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

Note Type: General
Notes: The date range for the possible year of manufacture of this Narkomed GS is
based on a communication from a Draeger Service Triage representative, dated
October 8, 2015.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Company profile: Draeger Medical. Nurses.com. https://www.nurses.
com/doc/draeger-medical-0001. Published March 21, 2001. Accessed October 21,
2015.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Day in the life. 24×7 website. https://www.24x7mag.
com/2007/01/day-in-the-life-drger-museum/. Published January 31, 2007.
Accessed October 16, 2015.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Dorsch JA, Dorsch SE. Anesthesia ventilators. In: Understanding Anesthesia
Equipment. 4th ed. Balitmore: Williams & Wilkins; 1999:317-331. [Descriptions
of the AV and AV-E ventilators as well as the Divan ventilator.]

Note Type: Not Applicable
Notes: Dorsch JA, Dorsch SE. Anesthesia ventilators. In: Understanding Anesthesia
Equipment. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins; 2008:319-334. [Description of the AV2+ and Divan ventilators.]

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Email from Draeger Service Triage. Accession record 2014-02-15-1. Archives.
Located at: Located at: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Schaumburg,
Illinois. [Draeger Medical, Inc. provided manufacturing date ranges for the
Narkomed GS: 1997-2006.]

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Emails from George Bause, MD. Accession record 2014-02-15-1. Archives.
Located at: Located at: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Schaumburg,
Illinois.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Narkomed GS Anesthesia System: Operator’s Instruction Manual. Telford, PA:
North American Dräger; 1998.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Narkomed GS: the compact and durable anesthesia system [marketing booklet].
Telford, Pennsylvania: North American Dräger; 1997.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: Narkomed GS: refining the art of anesthesia delivery [marketing booklet].
Telford, Pennsylvania: North American Dräger; [no date provided, 1997-1998?].

Note Type: Citation
Notes: North American Dräger. Narkomed 6000 – launching a new direction
[advertisement]. Anesthesiology. 1998;89(4):14A.

Note Type: Citation
Notes: North American Dräger. Narkomed GS: the definition of refinement
[advertisement]. Anesthesiology. 1997;86(5):20A.

Note Type: Physical Description
Notes: [1] One anesthesia machine; The measurements in the physical description were
taken with the breathing circuit extended into a position as if in use; The
width and depth will vary depending on the position of the breathing circuit;
The ventilator controls are located in the upper left of the machine; Marked
most left is, “AV2+”; The controls are lined horizontally, from left to
right: A small digital screen and dial marked, “FREQUENCY [new line] /min”,
another small digital display and dial marked, “I:E RATIO”; Below the display
for the I.E ratio is a button marked, “EXTENDED RANGE”; A few inches to the
right is a gauge and then a dial marked, “INSPIRATORY FLOW”; The gauge is
marked with three different sections labeled, “Low”, “Med”, and “High”; To
the right of the inspiratory dial are two small indicator lights; The upper
light is marked “VENTILATOR [new line] ON”; The lower light is marked,
“FAULT”; The remainder of the ventilator controls are on the left side, below
those just described; They include a dial marked, “INSPIRATORY PRESSURE
LIMIT”; To the right of this is a dial marked “TIDAL VOLUME [new line] PUSH
TO TURN”; Below these is the bellows canister; A ventilator relief valve is
located just posterior to the bellows; To the right of the bellows canister
are four indicator lights; From top to bottom, these are marked, “O2 SUPPLY
PRESSURE”, “AC POWER FAIL”, “BATTERY LOW”, “BATTERY TEST”; To the right of
the battery test indicator light is a push button; Below the indicator lights
is the system power dial with a position marked, “ON,” and another position
marked “STANDBY”; Between the lights and the bellows canister is an auxiliary
oxygen flowmeter with a Christmas tree port; It is graduated from 0 to 10,
and numbered at even numbers; To the right of the indicator lights and power
dial is the gas flowmeter and pressure gauge assembly; From left to right are
flowmeters for nitrous oxide, air and oxygen; All have a coarse and fine flow
tube, as well as pressure gauges for pipe and cylinder sources; The nitrous
oxide is marked “N20” and color coded blue, air is color coded yellow, and
oxygen is marked “O2” and color coded green; On the upper right side of the
machine is a display screen for the monitoring system; The upper part of the
machine, where the horizontal ventilator controls and the display screen are
located, is a light blue color; The area immediately surrounding the screen
and monitoring system controls is light grey; The area immediately
surrounding the screen and monitoring system controls is light grey; Located
on the left side of the screen are three push keys; The top key is marked,
”Config”; Below the word, “Alarms” are two push keys; The upper one is marked
“All Stby”, and the lower key is a crossed out alarm symbol; To the right of
the display screen are three push key areas; The upper one is marked “Oxygen
(%)” and has three horizontally aligned push keys; From left to right they
are “High Limit”, “Low Limit”, and “Cal” [for calibration]; In the next push
key section, below “Breathing Volume (Liters)”, are another three
horizontally aligned push keys; From left to right, these are marked, “Low
Limit”, “On” and “Off”; In the third push key section, below, “Breathing
Pressure (cm H2O)”, are five push keys, arranged in one row of three and then
a second row of two; From left to right, the three keys in the first row are
marked, “High Limit”, “On”, and “Off”; The first key in the second row is
marked with an image of a single inspiratory-expiratory respiratory volume
curve; The second key is marked with, “Auto Set”; In the lower right corner
of the display screen area is a push button with an arrow pointing upward,
and a push button with an arrow pointing downward; Also to the right of the
flowmeter assembly, and below the monitor display screen, are three Vapor 19.
1 vaporizers; … [continued at 2].

Note Type: Not Applicable
Notes: [2, continued from 1] … From left to right they are, “Halothan” (with a
color code bar of red), “Enflurane” (with a color code bar of orange), and
“ISOFLURANE” (with a color code bar of purple); The table top is stainless
steel; On the front edge of the table top is a button for O2 flush and a
fresh gas outlet for an oxygen sensor, as well as a handle for adjusting the
position of the machine; Below the table-top are three white drawers; Marked
on the upper right of the top drawer is, “NARKOMED”; A check list for before
use, and during use, is located on the inside bottom of the fist drawer; The
machine is on four wheels; A bar for the breathing system extends from the
left side of the machine; Included in the breathing system is a dual carbon
dioxide absorber, inspiratory and expiratory valves, pressure sensing port,
APL valve, flow sensor, adjustable PEEP valve and pressure gauge; An open gas
scavenger system is located on the left-back side of the machine; On the
right side of the machine, just below the table-top are two gas canister
yokes for oxygen; A large push/pull bar extends diagonally (upward and to the
right) from the right side of the table top; On the back on the machine, in
the upper right, is a data port; To the right of this are ports for the
volume sensor, oxygen sensor, breathing pressure and Auto/Bag selector; The
Fittings for pipeline gases are accessible from the right side of the back of
the flowmeter assembly; They are for oxygen, air and nitrous oxide; Two yokes
for nitrous oxide and air, are located on the back of the machine, just
below the level of the table top; A number of electrical outlets are located
on the lower right side of the back; A large number of warnings are marked on
the back of the device; Other manufacturer markings include the following,
DRAEGER MEDICAL, INC. [new line] TELFORD, PA [new line] 18969 USA [new line]
MODEL NARKOMED GS [new line] SER NO 13983”; Elsewhere on the back, near the
warnings and cautions, the following is marked, “NORTH [new line] AMERICAN
[new line] DRÄGER [NEW LINE] 3135 Quarry Road, Telford, PA 18969”; Also
marked on the back of the machine is, “This equipment is covered by one or
more of the following patents: #4381774, #5411019”; Also marked on the back
is, “If service is not available within 24 hours contact: NORTH AMERICAN
DRÄGER [new line] TECHNICAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT [new line] (800) 543-5047 or
(215) 721-5402 [new line] FAX (215) 723-5935”.

Note Type: Reproduction
Notes: Photographed by Mr. Steve Donisch, June 8, 2015.

Note Type: Acquisition
Notes: Donated to the WLM by Mr. James Yoder.

Note Type: Not Applicable
Notes: North American Dräger(NAD) followed the Narkomed 4 anesthesia machine with
the 1997 introduction of the Narkomed GS. The GS was more compact and
featured a single monitoring screen (as opposed to the double screen on the
Narkomed 2 through 4), a much simplified monitor-user interface, and a new
color scheme. In marking the GS, NAD emphasized its “user friendly interfaces
and intuitive controls.” In 1999, NAD merged with another Drägerwerk AG
subsidiary, Dräger, Inc., to form Draeger Medical, Inc. For this reason, some
Narkomed GS machines were manufactured by NAD and others by Draeger Medical,
Inc. The machine pictured here bears both names. Production of the GS ceased
in 2006.

With the GS, the Narkomed’s standard monitors were whittled down to
inspiratory oxygen concentration, respiratory volume, and breathing system
pressure. Also of note, the GS was the last Narkomed built with one of NAD’s
“AV” series of ventilators, specifically the “AV2+.” The Narkomed 6000,
introduced in late 1998, came with a Divan (Digital Ventilator for
Anesthesia) ventilator. The AV2+ was a pneumatically driven, double-circuit
ventilator with one ventilation mode: volume control. The Divan was an
electrically driven, piston ventilator that allowed for multiple ventilation
modes: volume control, pressure control and
synchronized-intermittent-mandatory ventilation.

The GS pictured here was once part of the James Yoder Teaching Collection of
North American Dräger. Mr. Yoder was a NAD machinist and educator. Originally
Mr. Yoder maintained the collection of NAD equipment for the purpose of
educating anesthesia providers and machine technicians. Later the collection
became the basis for the museum which was located at the headquarters of NAD
in Telford, Pennsylvania.

Note Type: Publication
Notes: Feldman JM. Compliance compensation of the Narkomed 6000 explained.
Anesthesiology. 2001;94(3):543-544. https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.
org/article.aspx?articleid=1945129. Accessed October 21, 2015.

Note Type: Publication
Notes: Olympio MA. Modern anesthesia machines offer new safety features. APSF Newsl.
Summer, 2003;18(2):17-32. https://www.apsf.
org/newsletters/html/2003/summer/machines.htm. Accessed October 21, 2015.

Note Type: Publication
Notes: Stevenson GW, Tobin M, Horn B, et al. A comparison of two ventilator systems
using an infant lung model. Anesthesiology. 2000;93(1):285-291.
https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1945949. Accessed
October 21, 2015.

Note Type: Exhibition
Notes: Selected for the WLM website (noted October 7, 2015).