Testing ventilators using the VT900A

Before putting your new ventilator into service you're going to want to perform an incoming inspection. This makes sure that nothing happened during shipping and that your ventilator is performing the way that it should. This is critical to patient safety! To do that you're gonna need a gas flow analyzer, and in front of me, I have the VT900A. Fluke Biomedical has packed some great innovation into this product to make your incoming inspections go faster and easier. The first of which is warm-up time. There's no need to keep your gas flow analyzer plugged into the wall to keep the sensors warmed up. The unit warms up essentially instantaneously. The second innovation is the test profiles. If you think about your service manual, there are many things that are specific to that brand and model of the ventilator, and you can program them all into your test profiles. The gas type, correction mode, units, all of that can be saved in there so that when you show up to your ventilator you press load, you make your connections, and you're ready to go. You can even save the load part by saying load at startup. So you're gonna save that time every unit you test.

The second thing is that we have a single flow channel. It does high and low flow so there's no need for multiple connections, there's no need for multiple modules. It's all built into the unit and it automatically compensates for temperature, humidity, and pressure, so that you don't have to. The unit also has an eight-hour battery life and onboard memory so you can stay out in the field and do all of your testing, and not worry about your test results until the end of the day because you can save them all on here. You can download them with the Excel add-in and populate those into your test reports to make the job easy as well.

If you have a need for more advanced workflow automation we have OneQA software. This allows you to create your own test procedure and even put in components of VT testing. So in one procedure, you could have VT and ESA, all your test reports in one report for that one asset ID.