Meditec Vista from Allied Medical Limited

During Covid-19 pandemic, there were many difficulties faced by the nursing staff while treating patients in the intensive care like working in an unfamiliar environment, lack of experience in caring for infectious patients, anxiety about being infected, heavy workload, extreme exhaustion, and depression due to failure to treat critically ill patients. The situation has become worse, especially post Covid-19 pandemic because of performing their duties round the clock with so many wearables like PPE kit, protective shield, etc. Adverse events because of human error are at times blamed on medical personnel; previous studies reported poor designs of user interface of medical devices as the primary cause. Therefore, a user-friendly interface of an equipment may improve human-machine interactions and reduce risks.

Being an Indian manufacturing company, Allied Medical Limited understands the pain and troubles that are being faced by medical staff while treating patients in intensive care units; so they are continuously committed in producing the products having easy and intuitive user-interface, making the user feel alleviated from the equipment end.

Allied Meditec Vista ventilator is a microprocessor-controlled ventilator, with an intelligent and universal effective solution for neonatal to adult patients. Intuitive and simple user-interface, with quick operational readiness and automatic device check, provides confidence in use, and reduces training time. It offers a wide range of ventilation modes, which makes it suitable for various clinical requirement in NICUs. Simple user-interface and effortless operation makes AML Meditec Vista to be innate and requires minimum amount of training for the medical and nursing staff. The trend in the NICUs is to use non-invasive ventilation, whenever possible; invasive ventilation is still often necessary for supporting pre-term neonates with lung disease, so as an advantage AML Meditec Vista provides non-invasive and invasive ventilation compatibility in all the modes of ventilation as a standard feature. AML Meditec Vista also offers some dedicated modes for neonates like TCPL and HFV.

In the last decade, the role of mechanical ventilation in the NICU has been evolving. Invasive mechanical ventilation, although often necessary for supporting neonates with lung disease, has been implicated as a major cause of lung injury and inflammation, and is now considered a primary risk factor for neonates developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Conventional ventilation, combined with the high-frequency ventilation technique, is the new way of treating neonatal babies in the critical care division.

Currently, the demand for neonatal ventilators is abounding in post-pandemic era. Since its inception, the neonatal mechanical ventilator has been considered an essential tool for managing premature neonates with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).

Allied Meditec Vista ventilator offers mechanical ventilation at supraphysiologic rates and low Vt, known as high-frequency ventilation (HFV), and improves gas exchange in a select group of patients who show no response to traditional ventilatory modalities. The mechanism of alveolar ventilation in HFV is very different from that in conventional ventilation, in that HFV is less dependent on Vt and more dependent on asymmetric velocities and convective dispersion of inspired gas. Patients with severe persistent hypoxic failure are most likely to benefit from HFV. HFV is also helpful in patients with bronchopleural fistula and persistent air leaks. The main tenet of HFV is to recruit lung volume with a high MAP and produce smaller fluctuations in alveolar pressure during inspiration and expiration, thus maintaining a satisfactory FRC and reducing alveolar stretch. AML HFV is based on a very reliable and cost-effective principle, providing an additional feature of single and dual HFV. Dual HFV facilitates the measurement of end-tidal carbon dioxide, and the therapist can check the response of the patient without any interventions.