The SERVO ventilator brand name is associated with revolutionary technology that has radically changed the intensive care workplace during the past four decades. The majority of physicians in the global ICU environment have been trained on or at some point used SERVO ventilators.

The SERVO 900 was introduced at the Scandinavian Society of Anesthesiologists in June, 1971 – and immediately revolutionized intensive care ventilation. Small, silent and featuring the famous SERVO feedback system to control gas delivery, the SERVO 900 meant clinicians could now reliably achieve targeted volumes and respiratory rates for individual patients.

The system’s extensive monitoring and alarms were real breakthroughs in mechanical ventilation. Combined with the SERVO feedback system controlling what had been set and regulating delivery, clinicians now had unprecedented treatment opportunities. The SERVO ventilator set the standard for all modern ventilators – in fact, its unique principles are still the backbone of the SERVO-i® series ventilators in use today.

1991 saw the introduction of an entirely new generation of SERVO ventilators: the 300 series. A giant technological advancement, the SERVO 300 series took full advantage of microprocessing innovation and for the first time enabled treatment of all patient categories, from adults to neonates, using the same ventilator.

The SERVO 300 series provided a completely new and unique gas delivery system with a small mixing chamber and microprocessor-controlled valves. The fast flow response coupled with sensitive flow triggering made the SERVO 300 a truly universal ventilator, allowing assisted and controlled ventilation for all patient categories.

Launched in 2001, the SERVO-i has consistently proven itself in clinics around the world, and has been earning praise ever since. When awarding the 2005 Marketing Leadership Award in Global Ventilator Markets, Frost & Sullivan stated: “Customers are demanding user-friendly and modular systems that provide clinical benefits and cost effectiveness.”

The SERVO ventilator was the first to implement lung protective modes like Pressure Control, Pressure Support and Pressure Regulated Volume Control. Today, the OPEN LUNG TOOL®, Heliox, STRESS INDEX, and especially NAVA® (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist) have taken lung protection even further, providing critical ventilatory support with less risk of Ventilator Induced Lung Injury (VILI).

NAVA monitors the Electrical signal of the diaphragm, thus allowing the patient’s brain to control its own ventilatory needs, with the ventilator only providing for the lack of muscle power, NAVA literally redefines ventilator synchrony and is rapidly becoming the standard we can all keep building on.

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