SERVO-U represents a significant advancement in protective ventilation, designed to be more accessible, understandable, and easily implemented in critical care settings. This innovative ventilator enhances clinical confidence in tailoring treatments to individual patient conditions, ensuring that a broader spectrum of patients across all ventilation phases—controlled, supported, non-invasive, and during spontaneous breathing trials—can benefit from sophisticated lung protective strategies.
Servo-u provides a comprehensive suite of options for personalized lung protection and weaning, all engineered for ease of comprehension, implementation, and daily use. This simplicity facilitates the seamless integration of advanced personalized ventilation strategies into routine patient care protocols.
Key Features of SERVO-U:
- Support for Protective Ventilation Strategies: Incorporates tools to facilitate established protective ventilation strategies, including ARDSNet protocols and NAVA® (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist).
- Context-Based Guidance and Intuitive Workflows: Offers therapeutic workflows and intuitive user interaction across all functions, providing context-specific guidance to clinicians.
- Upgradeable Platform: Designed as a scalable platform that can evolve and expand in functionality to meet future clinical needs and technological advancements.
- Automated Calculations: Features automatic calculation of VT/PBW (Tidal Volume/Predicted Body Weight), simplifying crucial settings for protective ventilation.
- Integrated On-Screen Tutorials: Provides readily accessible on-screen tutorials to assist users in understanding and utilizing the ventilator’s features effectively.
- Ergonomic Design: Engineered with an ergonomic design to enhance user comfort and operational efficiency in demanding clinical environments.
- Interchangeable Product Modules: Utilizes interchangeable product modules, offering flexibility and cost-effectiveness in maintenance and upgrades.
Alt: Servo-u ventilator screen displaying intuitive interface for medical professionals in ICU setting.
Safe, User-Friendly, and Efficient Mechanical Ventilation
Servo ventilators are the product of over five decades of close collaboration with intensive care clinicians globally. This enduring partnership has driven clinical innovation, elevated patient safety standards, and enhanced the overall user experience in mechanical ventilation.
- Enhanced Safety Features:
Servo-u is designed with a strong emphasis on safety, minimizing the potential for user errors and critical incidents. This focus on safety helps clinicians consistently deliver the intended standard of patient care.
- High Usability for Clinicians:
The ventilator’s high usability ensures that it is easy to operate and learn, with an intuitive interface that complements existing clinical workflows, reducing the learning curve and potential for errors.
- Reduced Workload for Healthcare Providers:
By streamlining ventilator operation, Servo-u contributes to a reduced workload for medical staff, allowing them to dedicate more time and attention to direct patient care and other critical tasks.
- Choosing the Right Ventilator for Your Team:
Recognizing that each ICU environment is unique, Servo-u is designed to be adaptable and user-friendly, ensuring that medical teams feel confident and comfortable with its operation. The ventilator’s functions are designed to be easily accessible and manageable, promoting efficient and effective ventilation therapy.
Alt: Servo-u ventilator providing respiratory support to patient in intensive care unit, showcasing its application in critical care.
Simplifying Ventilation Complexity
While mechanical ventilation can be inherently complex, the Servo-u ventilator is engineered to simplify the process for clinicians. It delivers a range of effective options for protective ventilation in an accessible, understandable, and easily implementable manner. This simplicity ensures that more patients across all phases of ventilation can receive the benefits of advanced lung protective strategies.
Personalized Protection at the Optimal Time for Each Patient
Servo-u provides a complete suite of tools for personalized ventilation strategies. It empowers clinicians to proactively identify risks and facilitates the consistent and timely application of personalized protective ventilation strategies, aligning with current international clinical guidelines.
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Servo Compass: Visualizing Protective Ventilation Targets
Servo Compass simplifies the monitoring of key protective ventilation parameters. It provides a clear visual representation of plateau pressure, driving pressure, and tidal volume per predicted body weight (VT/PBW) in relation to pre-defined targets. This real-time feedback assists clinicians in quickly identifying deviations and implementing necessary interventions. Integrated dynamic compliance (Cdyn) and Stress Index (SI) further enhance the diagnostic picture, aiding in the detection of lung volume changes and potential over-distension.
Alt: Servo Compass feature displayed on Servo-u ventilator screen, illustrating parameters for protective ventilation management.
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Transpulmonary Pressure Monitoring: Enhancing Accuracy
Servo-u incorporates transpulmonary pressure monitoring to refine esophageal manometry and improve measurement accuracy. An automated maneuver is integrated to validate balloon positioning and filling, streamlining the setup process. A dedicated diagnostic view displays esophageal (Pes) and transpulmonary (PL) pressure waveforms, along with essential parameters for assessing the safety of both controlled and spontaneous ventilation. This feature provides a more intuitive understanding of the relationship between airway and transpulmonary pressures.
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Open Lung Tool: Optimizing Lung Mechanics and Gas Exchange
The Open Lung Tool in Servo-u offers trend data to evaluate lung mechanics and gas exchange continuously, breath-by-breath, in real-time, and retrospectively. This comprehensive monitoring capability provides clinicians with the flexibility and guidance needed to personalize PEEP (Positive End-Expiratory Pressure) and driving pressure settings during recruitment maneuvers, prone positioning, and extracorporeal life support (ECLS). Stress index, carbon dioxide elimination, and transpulmonary pressures are seamlessly integrated into this tool.
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Automatic Recruitment Maneuvers: Streamlining Lung Recruitment
Auto SRM (Automatic Stepwise Recruitment Maneuver) is an automated workflow within Servo-u that simplifies stepwise recruitment maneuvers based on the Open Lung approach. This tool guides clinicians through the entire recruitment process, including decremental PEEP titration, re-recruitment, and post-recruitment personalization of PEEP and driving pressure, all optimized based on dynamic compliance (Cdyn). Diagnostic features are included to assess recruitability and provide additional decision support in cases where patients do not respond as expected to the recruitment maneuver.
Facilitating Early Weaning with Diaphragm Monitoring
Current clinical research highlights the prevalence of diaphragm weakness in ICU patients (ranging from 23% to 84%) and its consistent correlation with adverse outcomes. Servo-u addresses this critical aspect by enabling the monitoring of patient diaphragm activity (Edi) to personalize ventilation strategies and promote successful weaning.
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Easing the Transition to Spontaneous Breathing with Automode
The interactive Automode feature in Servo-u is designed to facilitate a smoother transition to spontaneous breathing for both patients and clinical staff. It intelligently and seamlessly switches between controlled and supported ventilation modes based on the patient’s respiratory effort. Three Automode combinations are available to suit diverse patient needs and clinical scenarios.
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Diagnosing Breathing Effort and Initiating Weaning with Edi Monitoring
Edi (electrical activity of the diaphragm) serves as a vital sign for respiration and a valuable bedside diagnostic tool. Servo-u allows for continuous monitoring and visualization of Edi, making it easier to identify issues such as over-assist, over-sedation, and patient-ventilator asynchrony. This enhanced monitoring capability supports the optimization of ventilation delivery and more informed assessments of weaning readiness, facilitating earlier and more appropriate interventions.
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Activating the Diaphragm and Protecting the Lungs with NAVA
NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist) leverages Edi to deliver personalized ventilatory support, both invasively and non-invasively. NAVA promotes lung-protective spontaneous breathing, leading to improved diaphragmatic efficiency and reduced occurrences of over-assist and under-assist. Additionally, NAVA can enhance the patient’s ICU experience by enabling reduced sedation levels, improved comfort, and better sleep quality.
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Configurable NIV Modes for Diverse Patient Populations
Servo-u offers configurable NIV (Non-Invasive Ventilation) modes, including NIV NAVA, suitable for a broad range of patient categories. NIV NAVA is a non-invasive approach that can help prevent intubation and mitigate worsening respiratory failure. It is also leakage-independent, which helps to minimize skin breakdown. High-flow therapy is also supported, reducing the patient’s work of breathing by delivering a precise flow of heated and humidified oxygen, thereby improving patient comfort and tolerance.
A Secure and Future-Proof Investment
Optimizing Uptime and Efficiency for Stress-Reduced Ownership
Investing in Servo-u is an investment in both present and future clinical capabilities. Its flexible, modular platform is designed to adapt to evolving clinical needs, and dedicated expert support is available at every stage to ensure optimal performance and longevity.
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Modular Platform for Adaptability
Servo-u’s modular design, encompassing a range of software options and interchangeable hardware modules, allows for configuration tailored to current requirements and seamless upgrades as needs change. The interchangeability of modules also allows for cost savings by enabling module sharing across different ventilators, reducing overall operational costs.
Alt: Servo-u ventilator showcasing modular design with interchangeable components for flexible configuration and upgrades.
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High-Quality Consumables for Reliable Operation
Getinge provides a comprehensive range of readily available, high-quality consumables designed with patient safety and ease of use as paramount considerations. These consumables are engineered to support the reliable and efficient operation of Servo-u in daily clinical practice.
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Data Connectivity with MSync
MSync facilitates the seamless connection of your Servo ventilator fleet to patient monitors, Hospital Information Systems (HIS), or Patient Data Management Systems (PDMS). This connectivity enables real-time transfer of clinical and patient data, supporting more informed clinical decision-making and improved data management.
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Maximized Uptime with Getinge Care Services
Optimizing equipment service and maintenance is crucial for maximizing productivity and minimizing costs. Getinge Care service offerings are designed to allow healthcare providers to focus on their primary mission – saving lives – by ensuring the continuous and reliable operation of their Servo-u ventilators.
