DRE Offers O.R. Monitor With EtCO2 and Five-Agent Analysis

The DRE Waveline Pro, an anesthesia gas monitor that can display eight vibrant waveforms on a 15" flat panel display, is now available to surgery centers and hospitals throughout the United States.

Louisville, Ky. – August 27, 2010 – DRE, Inc., a premier surgical and medical equipment supplier, now offers the DRE Waveline Pro, a dependable, economically-priced O.R. monitor that is available with anesthesia gas analysis.

The DRE Waveline Pro offers anesthesia gas monitoring without the need of an additional external module – all components are housed in a compact, comprehensive mobile package that costs a fraction of the price of comparable monitors.

The lightweight DRE Waveline Pro displays as many as eight colorful waveforms on a vivid 15" high resolution display. The affordable O.R. monitor measures multiple parameters, including ECG (three or five leads) with ST segment monitoring, respiration, dual temperature, SpO2 and NIBP.

Hospitals and surgery centers can choose the DRE Waveline Pro in configurations that measure EtCO2, dual-channel IBP and anesthetic agents (five agents, N2O, FiO2 and EtCO2). It is also available with a built-in thermal printer.

Additional features include:

• Arrhythmia detection
• ST segment analysis
• Automatic setting of alarm limits
• Color-coded alarms
• Graphical and tabular trending
• Patient data entry
• Battery back-up (two removable batteries)
• Networking capability
• Large 15" high resolution flat panel display
• Multi-lead simultaneous ECG monitoring
• EMR-compatibility – can be utilized with many current electronic medical record systems
• Automatic agent ID (optional)

The DRE Waveline Pro seamlessly integrates with the DRE Envoy TS, a telemetry system that monitors up to 16 patients from the central station. The DRE Envoy TS telemetry monitor also utilizes portable transmitters for mobile ECG monitoring throughout a surgery center or hospital ward.

In addition to the DRE Waveline Pro, DRE offers the DRE Maxx Luxx 3, a highly efficient surgery lighting system that provides extremely cool outputs. The DRE Maxx Luxx 3 produces a lux output of over 100,000 with a 39-watt H.I.D. bulb, and features wide range mechanical dimming, a 4,300° K color temperature and a 6.5-inch to 9-inch adjustable pattern.

DRE also offers the Penlon Prima SP2, an anesthesia system featuring a touchscreen ventilator, autoclavable absorber and accurate Penlon vaporizers. The Penlon Prima SP2 has advanced, easy-to-use features for maximum patient safety, and provides six ventilation modes – spontaneous, volume, pressure, pressure support, SIMV and SMMV.

The DRE Waveline Pro O.R. monitor with optional anesthesia gas monitoring is available now from DRE. Surgeons and physicians can learn more about DRE’s patient monitoring solutions, as well as other new and professionally New medical products, by visiting www.dremed.com.